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The 20th century has long been fascinated by what it considers one of the odder aberrations of the 19th: Victorian morality. British Historian J.H. Plumb has aptly described "the Victorian's schizophrenic attitude-the conspiracy of silence, the excessive modesty that made the sight of a female ankle wildly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HISTORICAL NOTES: Sex and Those Eminent Victorians | 3/24/1975 | See Source »

The Yale troupe invests the silly plot with style, wit and perfect timing. The score is something more-a Kurt Weill marvel. Not only were the famous Bilbao Song and Surabaya Johnny written for this musical, but also half a dozen other numbers of rare distinction. They range from Song...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Larky Gangsters | 3/10/1975 | See Source »

Fuseli's relaxation from blood was lust. The most eminent of his lovers was the pioneer of English feminism, Mary Wollstonecraft-at the very period in the 1790s when she was writing her Vindication of the Rights of Women. He seems to have viewed the woman he married, Sophia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Painter Possessed | 3/3/1975 | See Source »

The film does achieve one of its goals. Its exquisite photography makes it truly erotic, at least for a while. Shot in Bangkok, the film is stunningly exotic and a constant visual delight, and Jaeckin placed the most beautiful bodies he could find against this rich background. He knows how...

Author: By Kathy Holub, | Title: Our Only Enemy is Boredom | 2/27/1975 | See Source »

Right after this there's a flashback to Emmanuelle's plane flight over from Paris. Everyone is sleeping in the half-lit cabin. Except Emmanuelle and craggy faced man sitting across the aisle. She gets up and gets a blanket. He looks over a few times She looks back. He...

Author: By Kathy Holub, | Title: Our Only Enemy is Boredom | 2/27/1975 | See Source »

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