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Word: lechers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...titillation, she learns not only that she is the daughter of a slave woman, but that the plantation and she herself with it are being sold for taxes. Soon Amantha (Yvonne De Carlo in the movie) is trembling on the block at a slave auction. A lounging lecher decides to examine the goods, when whack!-a silver-headed cane smashes his wrist. The hero (Clark Gable) pays $2,000, and takes Amantha off to his manor house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Author in a Box | 11/17/1961 | See Source »

...Yaleman, full of boola, moola and ideals, trying to pursue an honest artistic career. Along the way, he is buffeted by a whipcracking female magazine publisher (Lahr), a Hollywood producer named Harry Hubris (Lahr), and his own father, Milo Leotard Allardyce DuPlessis Weatherwax (also Lahr), a wild Park Avenue lecher. When his son admits a literary interest in the exotic sins suggested by Lolita and the works of Oscar Wilde, Weatherwax bellows encouragingly: "That's the stuff to cut your eyeteeth on. You have to learn to crawl before you can walk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Broadway: Lay Off the Muses | 10/13/1961 | See Source »

...Father, Lloyd George, by Richard Lloyd George. The son of Britain's World War I Prime Minister shows in an excellent and well-balanced biography that his famed father was not only a great man but, on occasion, a humbug as well as a lecher on a grand scale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, Television, Theater: Jun. 30, 1961 | 6/30/1961 | See Source »

Asked why he chose to return to the Soviet sector of Germany following the War, Bertolt Brecht retedly explained, "I feel like a etor with just enough penicllin to cure one person of syphilis. Shall se it on the evil old lecher. . or pregnant young prostitute?" hat trenchant disenchantment! was he simply humoring his stern friends...

Author: By Frederick H. Gardner, | Title: Bertolt Brecht's Communist Writings: The Poetry and Politics of Disillusion | 3/10/1961 | See Source »

...Japan's Kagi, in many ways the high event of the festival, concerned an aging lecher whose strategy is to restore his virility by making himself jealous. According to that prescription, he virtually thrusts his daughter's fiancé into the arms of his own young wife (Machiko Kyo, whose musky, lotus-eyed sensuality was muffled in Rashomon). The young man is hardly more attentive to her than the camera, which pans up slowly on her nude body from feet to calves to knees to thighs to a lap dissolve. Topping that, the film contains what is probably...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOVIES ABROAD: The Winners at Cannes | 5/30/1960 | See Source »

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