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Word: flick (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Miss Innocent" was a little more appealing, and in a perverse sort of way, it summed up the Crimson fencing season. First of all, the filmmakers had escaped the Puritan confines that had restricted the efforts of the cameramen in "A Hard Man." And to top it off, the flick had a plot. (Well, sort of a plot.) In a nutshell, it goes like this: Mr. Hip, a rich, chic, handsome man in gold Cadillac convertible, picks up two nubile young girls hitchhiking on the road. They ride with him to the end of his driveway and then depart. Well...

Author: By Peter A. Landry, | Title: Petering Out | 3/21/1973 | See Source »

...Valenta can be sure of his guests' marital status, he cannot say, but in deference to their sensibilities, both motels feature only "softcore" movies that are less explicit than the fleshy dramas projected in skin-flick houses (sample titles: Peeping Melvin, Lusting for Life). For most registrants, soft-core seems quite sufficient...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Motel Blues | 3/12/1973 | See Source »

...Crest's manager, Nick Valenta, has a ready explanation: "About 90% of our guests," he says, "are married couples who always wanted to see this stuff but didn't want to go out to a skin flick in a bar. Now they can watch in the privacy of their own room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Motel Blues | 3/12/1973 | See Source »

...defendant was Mature Enterprises Inc., operator of the World, a Manhattan skin-flick theater charged with promoting obscenity by showing the highly publicized Deep Throat (TIME, Jan. 15). Tyler's decision may not make legal history-it may well be overturned on appeal to a higher court -but it was certainly noteworthy for its literary style. Although the judge found the film had "no idea worthy of protection," he did feel it to be worth 35 pages of outraged opinion, salted with quotes from Margaret Mead, D.H. Lawrence and Dr. Benjamin Spock, condemning in detail each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sexes: Tyler's Style | 3/12/1973 | See Source »

...first half of this satirical revue consists of topical skits done in the style of old vaudeville, neobur-lesque, superior college humor, and the antic, abrasive tradition of Lenny Bruce. Many one-liners flick at their subjects with rapid deflationary humor: "In times of stress, remember the Pueblo." A drug raid is announced: dauntless police have just "seized two ounces of marijuana with a street value...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Megadeath by Laughter | 2/19/1973 | See Source »

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