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...subsequent acts her painter-lover cuts his throat when he learns of Lulu's sordid past. Then an elderly lecher marries her; when he discovers her trysting with his son, he offers her a gun to commit suicide and is promptly shot dead himself. Lulu is smuggled out of prison by another of her lovers, Countess Geschwitz, who fools the authorities by changing clothes with Lulu and taking her place ("Now," muses the ungrateful Lulu, "the poor monster sits in prison instead of me"). Lulu decamps to Paris, philanders with gamblers, procurers and swindlers. The end comes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Period Piece | 1/25/1960 | See Source »

...saintly Moon Lady, separated from her pious young son by invading Tartars, is hustled offstage before she can become tiresome. Her place is taken by a crew of thieves, usurers, pimps and powder faces (prostitutes) who add up to a kind of road-company Decameron. The fat lecher Pi, for instance, lusts after the beautiful Silver Vase, a pubescent virgin being carefully tended by Lady Li, a flower-garden proprietor (brothelkeeper). Cash-and-Carry, a young wastrel, volunteers to act as go-between, but what he goes between are Silver Vase's sheets. Lady Li, who has been giving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wind & Moon Play | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

...White Steed). Says Producer David Susskind: "We have none of those pernicious and aggravating conditions and taboos that you get everywhere else on TV." Most memorable example to date-WNTA's unbowdlerized production of Jean Anouilh's sex farce. The Waltz of the Toreadors, whose aging lecher-hero is fond of leaning forward to tickle young bosoms with his medals, meanwhile delivering lines not usually heard from TV gag writers: "Science ought to find a way of putting women permanently to sleep; we could wake them up for a while at night; then they would go back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Waking Them Up at Night | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

...goes out of his way to inject as many contemporary references as possible while evading the law of libel and slander. Without in any way acting as an apologist for the South, I am prepared to believe that the governor of Mississippi is not a boozed up old lecher who only did one decent thing in his disgusting life, which...

Author: By George H. Watson, | Title: Squalid Life in Mississippi: The Same Old Tale Retold | 4/11/1959 | See Source »

Evgraf, Pasha, Komarovsky (the old lecher), and Tonia (Zhivago's first wife) rush onto the stage, whisper or shout their say, commit their little deeds and consider their situations, and the clamber back into the wings. Some, like Zhivago, are tangled in the threads of introspection; others don't appear to think at all. Does Komarsky help Lara out of a sense of guilt for having violated her, out of a real love, or what: What sort of person is Tonia? Why did Pasha really leave home? Unfortunately, we can't tune in tomorrow...

Author: By John D. Leonard, | Title: Pasternak's Hero: Man Against the Monoliths | 2/2/1959 | See Source »

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