Word: eroticizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The local doctor Astrov (George C. Scott) yearns for a Russia that would not brutalize its peasants and ravish its land, but disillusion has sunk him in drink. He too falls half in love with Elena, and she with him, but she is too indolent and conventional to make an...
They want us all to know that our rights to privacy are daily and dangerously threatened, but they raise the alarm with a true voyeur's relish. Extreme Close-Up has a sort of coy seaminess that says less about the hero's obsessions than the hang-ups...
Figuring that I should compare Private School Girls with something else, I ventured out a couple of days later to see what The Cocktail Hostesses at the West End Cinema had to offer. I should have known better. This bit of cinematic diarrhea runs about 80 minutes. The "plot" is...
Brazil's prim, puritanical military government, which last January banned certain erotic drawings by Pablo Picasso as obscene, has moved ahead with its campaign to keep the country pure and clean. In a tough new press-censorship decree, it banned 60 foreign and domestic magazines-including Playboy, Penthouse, Lui...
Pauline Kael's transformations are upsetting not only because of her influence, but because of what some of us once felt Kael herself could have become. If the early '60s, when she wrote for small film journals, literary quarterlies, and an occasional Atlantic or Harper's, she seemed one of...