Word: eroticizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sound familiar? There are suggestions of Brunnhilde's dilemma here, and certainly Lohengrin's. These similarities would not much matter if the music had independent life. Instead, the score is a shameless pastiche, something that Erich Korngold, the peerless artificer of movie music, would have deeply appreciated. Wagner...
It shows. But no one really cares. As a producer told an editor when refusing permission for overtime retakes, "Aw, what the hell, it's only television." The main thing is that on some primitive level the show is working. Fans mob the girls when they go into the...
"He'd take me to the five-and-dime and buy me a ribbon for my hair or a plastic duck to sail in the bath. I limited my life to him." So says Meta Carpenter Wilde, 69, recalling her 18-year romance with Novelist William Faulkner. From the...
The erotic overtones of this surmise tinge Gass's entire argument. For he is not finally interested in pinning "blueness" to the wall, but in suggesting what is truly "blue" in the realm of art. Not, he insists, the vivid depiction of sexual activity. Literature can convey only a...
Oshima extrapolated the film from a real incident. In Tokyo in the 1930s, a prostitute concluded her love affair with a gangster by castrating him, then wandered the streets for several days carrying his severed sex organs. Haunted by Genet and Mishima, animated by memories of De Sade, Oshima splashes...