Word: lesbian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...This is the true story -- this is how it was," Papatakis claims at the very beginning. Then he tells the story, of how the two lesbian sisters have remained in the employ of a provincial bourgeois family for three years without pay, of how the family cannot fire the maids because they cannot meet the back-wages, and of how the sisters become increasingly disaffected with their de facto slavery and eventually lose their sanity...
Entertaining Mr. Sloane, by Joe Orton. The English theater is going through a sick-comedy phase. The Killing of Sister George, a smash hit now playing in London, centers on an elderly, cigar-smoking lesbian and her doll-baby secretary-companion. Whenever the younger woman offends the older, she is forced to atone for it. One penance is to drink a cup of the old lesbian's bath water, another is to chew up one of her soggy cigar stumps...
...advisory, sent to stage and screen accounts, also included a lexicon of forbidden words and phrases: "cuties, flesh-a-scope, girlie, homosexual, immorality, lesbian, lust, naked, nothing on, nudies, nudist camp, nymphs, party girls, pervert, play girls, professional girls, prostitutes, rape, scanty panties, seduce, skin-a-scope, sex, sex rituals, sexpot, sexsational, strippers, third...
Despite its ineptitude, deep within the murky horror of Les Abysses there are glimmerings of intelligent despair. Two half-demented lesbian sisters (played by real-life sisters Francine and Colette Berge), employed as housemaids on a poverty-ridden farm in the Bordeaux region, are afraid that jobs and home will be sold away by their indifferent masters. Unable to sabotage the deal, they ultimately go berserk and commit two savage murders...
...wildly desirable schizophrenic whose corruptive beauty disrupted the routine of a private sanitarium. In Director Robert Rossen's movie version of the book, she is Jean Seberg, who enjoys an unholy liaison with a young therapist-in-training, lures an inmate toward destruction, steals away with a lesbian patient, and occasionally whispers improprieties into the ears of small boys...