Word: eroticizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Up from the skinflicks, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls had a budget twenty-five times larger than any of Meyer's previous films. The impact of his new 20th Century-Fox backing is obvious. Less than two years ago Meyer's privately produced Vixen, his largest financial success, was...
Called Golden Bat, the show has eye appeal, heart appeal and sense appeal. Its basic credo is far from unfamiliar. The staged ideas of the young have become almost a tarnished currency since the night Hair opened. Stop the war in Viet Nam. Be mighty free in speech. Struggle for...
To circumvent censorship, Porno, as the film is known, is passed off as a documentary. Clumsily interspersed with the sex scenes are travelogue footage of Denmark and man-on-the-street interviews of the queues entering Copenhagen's 1969 Sex Fair. Police vice squads have raided Porno-once in...
To some biblical scholars in Britain, the new book looked like the psychedelic ravings of a hippie cultist. To others, it was merely an outlandish hoax. One described it as reading "like a Semitic philologist's erotic nightmare."
Allegro's method is to delve behind the surface meaning and context of biblical words, conjuring instead with their frequently erotic root meaning ("Christian," he says, is a derivation from the Sumerian meaning "smeared with semen"). These half-forgotten roots, Allegro maintains, link the characters and stories of the...