Word: erotica
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...Basement is a simpler play and almost too pat. A man named Law (Ted van Griethuysen) sits reading a book of illustrated Persian erotica. An old chum, Stott (James Ray), shows up. The pair chat in laconic Pinter fashion for a while, and then Stott asks if he can bring in a girl friend. Jane (Margo Ann Berdeshevsky) enters, and she and Stott promptly strip, get into Law's bed and make love. Law goes back to his book of Persian erotica...
Gradually, guerrilla warfare breaks out between the two men over the woman, the weapons being outsize marbles and broken milk bottles. Law makes, and makes off with Jane. At play's end, Stott sits reading the Persian erotica. There is a knock at the door. It is Law; the cycle is now complete. But are they perhaps homosexual buddies who have finally got rid of the divisive woman...
...BRIDE WORE BLACK. Juggling erotica and neurotica, Jeanne Moreau plays a wronged bride out to revenge her murdered husband. Director Francois Truffaut's homage to Hitchcock has all the ingredients for a tense film in the genre of suspense...
...Senate Judiciary Committee does not often enliven its deliberations with erotica. The opportunity arose, improbably enough, during its hearings on the nomination of Associate Justice Abe Fortas as Chief Justice of the United States...
...Monsignor Joseph A. McCaffrey, it often seemed as if the devil himself had been the architect of his parish. At night, the streets teem with vagrants, homosexuals and brazen hookers. Bookstores flaunt their pornographic wares, and nudie movie houses flicker a mix of erotica and violence almost until dawn. As pastor of New York's Holy Cross Roman Catholic Church on 42nd Street, only two blocks off Broadway, McCaffrey spent 36 years crusading against the seamy side of the Great White Way. Acting like a one-man Legion of Decency, he won the newspaper title "Bishop of Times Square...