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...tiny group of consistently best-selling novelists, Morris West qualifies as the brains of the organization. That will give you, as Groucho Marx used to say, some idea of the organization. Still, West's popular fictions, like The Devil's Advocate, have regularly favored byplay over foreplay, concepts over jet-set conceits. Rather, than reading the public mind, West has specialized in suggesting what it ought to be thinking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pasteboard Parable | 1/22/1979 | See Source »

...that they conducted a survey of their own, of men and their feelings and opinions, and found almost diametrically opposite results from those Hite found. They found that what most men looked for above all in a sexual relationship are companionship and love; they found that most men found foreplay the most important part of sex; and they published their findings in a book called Beyond the Male Myth...

Author: By Nicholas B. Gunther, | Title: Men, Women and Sexism | 2/9/1978 | See Source »

...side of town and lives with his wife (Margaret Avery) on the other. Since he is trying to be true to his mistress (here Sicily obtrudes), he doesn't make love to his wife. She decides that he must be accustomed to a sophisticated, Los Angeles kind of foreplay, and a marvelously boisterous (and girlsterous) scene follows in which she handcuffs him to the bedposts, whips him a bit, and then commits indignities on him with a vibrator. (Cultural note: vibrators seem to have no shock value now, unless you drop one in the bath water, but they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Chicken Flickin' | 11/28/1977 | See Source »

...hard-core sex was obviously the hard core of the film's structure. Cut the crud and all you have left is a lot of tedious - not to say infantile - intellectual foreplay. Abduction cannot be taken seriously enough to laugh at, and natural curiosity about links with the Hearst case should be sternly stifled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Symbiosis | 11/10/1975 | See Source »

...uncomfortable about "his constant reference to sex," but she was told she had to overcome her squeamishness about touching him. Roy says she was so afraid of getting hurt by the therapy that she considered jumping to her death in the Grand Canyon. Finally, after six months of foreplay, she succumbed to Hartogs, she said, and was told this "indicated progress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sexes: Love Thy Analyst | 3/24/1975 | See Source »

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