Word: erotica
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...Books present problems, too, as for instance Henry Miller's notorious Tropic of Cancer (see BOOKS). But even bestsellers have a smaller audience-and less direct impact-than any movie. Actually, the anti-Hollywood protests have been far milder than might have been expected, considering the varieties of erotica and sexual aberrations explored by today's film makers: fornication, adultery, incest, prostitution, pimping, nymphomania, voyeurism, frigidity, rape, homosexuality, cannibalism and necrophilia...
...Gustav Klimt, then the dean of Austrian art. Gradually Schiele evolved a somber style of his own-and he had few inhibitions about his subject matter. His pictures were roundly denounced as "the most disgusting things one has ever seen in Vienna." He himself was once convicted of painting erotica and jailed for 24 days-the first three of which he spent desperately trying to make paintings on the wall with his own spittle. For years he wore hand-me-down suits and homemade paper collars, was even driven to scrounging for cigarette butts in Vienna's gutters. Drafted...
Still under 30, Mason becomes "the solemn apostle of the groin." tours Europe with a raft of erotica, cases of twelve-year-old Scotch and a pneumatic mistress named Rosemarie ("that great walking Beautyrest of a woman"). When he is not blacking Rosemarie's eyes, Mason likes to pontificate on Topic A: "Sex is the last frontier ... the only area left where men can find full expression of their individuality...
...also set the tone of the whole festival. In reversal of tradition, there was little obvious sex among the spectators and publicity-minded starlets this year, but there was so much on the screen that, before the competition was very far along, Cannes' filmpalace had been labeled The Erotica...
...many other elements (including Yacky Doo's mawkish death) intrude on the story's essential mixture of fondness and malice. But Author Linklater's entertainment survives its flaws. His most effective jest is at the expense of the reader who, eager to read the imaginary Burns erotica, leafs ahead to find some. The novel is salted with verses, but most of them are Scots hymns...