Word: eroticisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Her colleagues agreed. "A committee of women," said one, "cannot crown a book dealing with erotic subjects."
A late 19th-Century period piece, My Romance tells of the great love between a young Manhattan clergyman and a not very moral Italian diva, and of how, putting love before sex, she nobly renounces him. As enacted by two gauche vocalists, this desire of the cloth for the flame...
Naked Heroes. A pupil of his great-uncle Francois Boucher, David was brought up to be a boudoir painter, trained in the sentimental and erotic elegance that the court demanded. But young David was a difficult student; he simply could not learn to paint charmingly. At 27 he took off...
Fighting Trim. Fuller's 7,300 dealers buy their stock; their profit (average take: $70 a week) depends on their own initiative. Fuller men have delivered babies, rushed stricken customers to hospitals; one saved a child from strangulation by slapping its bottom until the coin she had swallowed was...
After the revolution, Prophet Menzhinsky became the Leninists' knout. Lenin called him "the decadent neurotic." This policeman was interested in Persian art and higher mathematics. He wrote erotic poetry and read pornographic novels in his office between executions. He was plump, languid, soft-voiced, given to blue moods. He...