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Word: eroticized (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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This was the public Beaton. The private one could only be revealed posthumously, once the unexpurgated diaries came to light. Vickers can hardly be called indiscreet for ransacking them. After all, the diarist himself believed that his record of snobbism and social vaulting, of erotic triumphs and humiliations would make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Homemade Cecil Beaton | 7/14/1986 | See Source »

And show biz. Words such as network, rock, video, new wave, hit parade, album all turn up in Swedish or, for that matter, Arabic. Show biz helps introduce the language of romance: sexy, playboy and, eventually, baby sitter. In Japan, the English names for sexual organs are considered more polite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: English: A Language That Has Ausgeflippt | 6/16/1986 | See Source »

In Hughes' second film, The Breakfast Club, the mood is edgier and more combative: you and you and you and you and me against the whole rotten adult world. Five high schoolers--a jock (Emilio Estevez), a rebel (Judd Nelson), a brain (Anthony Michael Hall), a beatnik (Ally Sheedy) and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Well, Hello Molly Ringwald! | 5/26/1986 | See Source »

If Hemingway had completed this romance, perhaps Catherine would have had more than two dimensions. The first is what Edmund Wilson called "the all- too-perfect felicity of a youthful erotic dream." The second hinges on the age-old view of woman as the cause of original sin. Catherine is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Old Man and the Sea Change the Garden of Eden | 5/26/1986 | See Source »

To his credit, Spencer has not been content simply to repeat himself. True, a spooky erotic attachment threads its way through this tale. Narrator Fielding Pierce, 34, has trouble forgetting his girlfriend Sarah Williams, who was blown up by a car bomb nearly five years earlier while driving in Minneapolis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ambitions Waking the Dead | 5/19/1986 | See Source »

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