Word: lewd
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After they play "Humiliate the Host," George proposes other games, like "Get the Guests." Nick gets Martha. George tries to goad Honey into listening to the lewd off-stage cavortings of their spouses, but she is locked in some private bomb shelter of her sodden fearful mind, and will not hear. At this point, the play achieves a suffocating vision of evil that would take a second Flood to cleanse. Even sin is sterile. Martha returns with a crestfallen Nick and announces mock-grandiosely: "I am the earth-mother, and you're all flops...
...first and slightest of the confessions offers a fairly standard cuckold-an anguished antique fancier who, moments after he hears the lewd news, is babbling distractedly of who should get the sideboard. The wife, as generally happens in a Bergman gavotte, frees herself of both lover and husband, but with maternal indulgence accepts the husband again. Aficionados will appreciate a surprising private joke; as the lovers loll in a boathouse, brooding over the sin they are about to commit, an enormous black fish appears in the water below. The adulterers regard it for a moment. Then one of them, mocking...
...seller. Among his slaves are drunkards, onetime bedmates, "rheumatiz boys," and three Mandingos (so named for their ancestral African tribe), who to preserve their pure blood must practice incest. Among his family are a son who loathes his wife and lives openly with a slave girl, and a lewd, liquored-up daughter-in-law (Brooke Hayward) who, from having been her "brother's whore," becomes a Mandingo youth's relentless seducer. Among the play's activities are brutal floggings, slaves who maul and kill one another while their masters bet on them, the daughter...
...inspired, antiwar idea of having wives lock their bedroom doors to make their husbands lay down their arms. But in production terms that idea has recurrently inspired more bad taste and ponderous bawdry than it was ever worth, and if The Happiest Girl is no more than middling lewd, it is so clangingly loud and heavy as to suggest marriage with the Anvil Chorus. Moreover, the lavish librettists have added Greek deities to Greek dames, offering scenes on an Olympus that, culturally, seems way below sea level. Furthermore, all the characters favor a modern idiom, so that when not dittying...
...does the usually keen cinema critic of TIME find "comedy" in middle-class immorality as vulgarly portrayed in the movie Facts of Life? European moviemakers can portray immorality with realism and thereby engender some soul searching. Facts of Life, in typical Hollywood fashion, features lewd innuendoes and lascivious smirks topped off by the subtle suggestion that this sort of affair is not taboo, just inconvenient...