Word: incest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fellow died at the hospital, Archer had no intention of calling it quits. Almost before Tony Aquista's body had cooled, the detective was poking into as sordid a mess as hardened mystery addicts could reasonably ask for. Macdonald's blend of sex and sadism includes marijuana, incest and adultery. That the mixture stops well this side of disgust is a tribute to his nice sense of realism, an adult way of conveying that life is sometimes like this, but no need to leer...
After a successful series of performances in Germany, Boulevard Solitude was chosen as a showpiece for Rome's two-week International Conference on Contemporary Music. Familiar as they were with operatic plots featuring faithless love (Pagliacci), harlotry (Traviata), rape (Don Giovanni), incest (Die Walküre), bastardy (Norma), Gomorrahism (The Rake's Progress) and murder (Tosca, etc.), Rome's select first-night audience balked at Boulevard Solitude...
...Explains Author Bellonci: she was a Borgia, too, and the family ties of this fiery Spanish dynasty were, even for those days, remarkably strong. Enemies of the Borgias contended that the family ties extended to incest between Lucrezia and her father the Pope. But the few actual accusations of this crime came from bitterly hostile opponents and with no supporting evidence. Biographer Bellonci doubts their truth...
...open in a manner that has yet to be equalled. We know, because there were Kinseys in those days, too, men who prided themselves on their objectivity as they calmly recorded the distressing picture of whole families getting together to indulge in promiscuous behavior. Adultery, prostitution, homosexuality and even incest were so common that those who indulged were regarded merely as interesting fellows...
Four successful goal-line stands climaxed the varsity rugby team's incest performances of the season as the Crimson swept both ends of a doubleheader from the New York Rugby Club and the British Navy's highly favored "Wanderers" Saturday on the House football field...