Word: incest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tone of His Honor's 19-page ruling was almost as undignified as the sex-centered Palm Beach divorce trial over which he presided. After listening for 18 days to conflicting tales of adultery, lesbian trysts, incest and drug use, Florida Circuit Court Judge Carl Harper, 55, ruled on the demands by Roxanne Pulitzer, 31, that her husband Peter Pulitzer, 52, pay her a reported $144,000 a year in alimony and child support, give her their $1.5 million estate and custody of their five-year-old twins, Mack and Zack. Terming the demands exorbitant, Harper said they reminded...
...take these things off the shelves," Mobley said, "then we're going to see a lot of things happen, like a drop in rape and a drop in incest...
...same time Bourgeois's imagination has a nasty side, as real acts of exorcism must. The fantasies her art expels into the chaste gallery space have as much to do with incest and cannibalism as with the more usual aesthetic satisfactions of MOMA. The most vivid of them, and the crudest, is a sort of grotto full of pendulous brown stalactites, lumpy and breastlike...
...surrender to passion. When the same visual genteelness is employed in a modern film, it is a little like getting a set of stereopticon slides instead of a VTR for your birthday; more nostalgic good taste than you really need. The subject now is not mere infidelity but incest no less, between an uncle (Sean Connery) and his niece (Betsy Brantley), who are on a climbing holiday in the Swiss Alps in the 1930s. Their guide (Lambert Wilson) restores them to moral health, but nothing can rescue the movie from the prissy pictorialism of Director Fred Zinnemann...
...Solitude, for example, the fictional village of Macondo, founded by the Buendia family, starts as a green Eden, then falls victim to collective amnesia, a Yanqui fruit company, catastrophic rains and inexplicable bouts of incest before being reclaimed by the jungle. When the beautiful and maddeningly virtuous Remedies Buendia is suddenly levitated heavenward while folding bedclothes, her sister-in-law merely grumbles that the sheets, which also rose, are lost forever. Central to all this is a compression of time, taut with comic invention, in which old tales and contemporary terrors are joined. The opening sentence of Solitude is typical...