Word: everly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...writhes to a funky beat, tears off his tie, slashes the air rhythmically with both arms and strains his pelvis and thigh muscles against trousers that seem to have been sprayed on. He is taunting the women in the audience as much as any torch singer ever taunted a man. As Jones puts it: "I'm trying to get across to the audience that I'm alive-all of it, the emotion and the sex and the power, the heartbeat and the bloodstream, are all theirs for the asking...
When contest day came, the volunteer fire department spread a barbecue, the ladies baked cakes and, although nobody ever explained why, a Green Beret unit from nearby Fort Bragg put on an exhibition of hand-to-hand combat. There was an upset in the women's division: Mrs. Anita Thornton, whose dinner call can be heard by her husband three miles away, lost to Mrs. Jeanne Marie Brown of New Orleans, who charmed the judges with her "Dismal Swamp Call." Dewey Jackson won the big gold trophy, as expected, then triumphed in the duet competition with his brother...
...that proposal were adopted, the stamp should, by rights, appear on an astonishing variety of products. Already, under a new, voluntary rating system, certain films are branded "M" and "suggested for mature audiences." American moviegoers have been peeking at bodies ever since Theda Bara bared her royal nipples in 1917 in Cleopatra. Still, inhibited by production codes and the restriction imposed by such influential bodies as the National Legion of Decency, American moviemakers generally avoided total nudity and explicitly erotic situations until the late 1950s, when successful films like Room at the Top and Never on Sunday showed that seals...
...most explicit and protracted depiction of fellatio ever filmed for commercial distribution occurs in an as yet unreleased movie called Coming Apart, starring Rip Torn as a troubled psychiatrist. For all its howling commercial success, I Am Curious (Yellow) by comparison is about as erotic as Das Kapitol. Andy Warhol's latest film, a 90-minute sexorama appropriately titled Blue Movie, contains 45 minutes of realistically simulated copulation (heterosexual for a change...
...less excited or shocked by nudity or scenes that show copulation. The strongest evidence suggests that total permissiveness in the arts is a result, not a cause, of relaxed standards of conduct. The majority of psychologists and behaviorists in effect reassert the familiar dictum that no girl was ever ruined by reading a book?and no boy was ever seduced by a girl appearing onstage without her clothes...