Word: lesbian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Very Fashionable." When Kate Millett, author of the bestselling Sexual Politics, acknowledged to a meeting of feminists and Gay Liberationists in 1970 that although married, she also enjoyed lesbian relationships, the news caused a sensation both within and without the women's movement. Millett's latest book, Flying, to be published in June, will tell all about her bisex life to an audience not so shockable. They have by now seen movies like Sunday, Bloody Sunday, in which a male lover is shared by Glenda Jackson and Peter Finch. They have read books like the bestseller. Portrait...
...Golden Age ghetto, and without a false touch of pathos, Miss Douglas writes a love story as passionate as it is asexual. Old age, she suggests, is a wicked spell cast upon lovers and life lovers, and she stocks her story with appropriate witches and ogres-a Lesbian nurse concealing a record as an abortionist, a nursing-home manager smarmy with greed and Bible-Belt piety...
...Door June Allyson, Novelist Nelson Algren, Psychologist Erich Fromm, Automation Millionaire John Diebold, Folk Singer Burl Ives and Mr. America himself, Bert Parks? Scrubbed out of the 1973 Celebrity Register, for one thing. Instead, publiciety's decennial Almanach de Gotha includes for the first time Rapist Eldridge Cleaver, Lesbian Jill Johnston, Red Black Angela Davis, Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre, and Senator Thomas Eagleton. For readers anxious to achieve such status, Microsociologist Cleveland Amory, in a foreword to the new edition, passes on some advice. The way to become a celebrity, said Aristotle Onassis, who ought to know...
...BITTER TEARS OF PETRA VON KANT. A morose lesbian paces her apartment, suffering the inconstancy of her lover. Since she is a fashion designer by profession, there are a number of mannequins in the apartment, and it is the inspiration of Director-Writer R.W. Fassbinder to have his heroine come to look more and more like one of her dummies. The Platters, the Walker Broth ers and Giuseppe Verdi furnish the music, the art director furnishes the flat-outside of which the movie never strays-and Fassbinder furnishes still another reason why West German movies are regarded with as much...
...transformation reflecting Mishima's own contempt for the vulgarization and materialism of postwar Japan. As the novel ends, Honda, who has begun to sound like a Japanese Humbert Humbert in his pursuit of his Thai princess-now a student in Japan-secretly watches her in a lesbian embrace. Then Honda's mansion at the foot of Mount Fuji burns to the ground like a pyre at Benares, the flyaway ashes sporadically sizzling into his new swimming pool. The combination of filigreed Oriental pornography and slightly cheap Götterdämmerung has sometimes been a contaminating tendency...