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...idiocy. He is driving his car. A gorgeous floozy jumps in at a stop light. She leers invitingly. He is dumbfounded. She leers some more. He begins to suspect that she has something not quite upright in mind. She smolders. He is within seconds of deciding that a lewd proposition is in the air. She opens her mouth and says, huskily, "It's green." Now he is flummoxed, filled with honest consternation- and intrigued. Can she mean . . . ? "The light," she explains sweetly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bright Clouseau | 8/7/1978 | See Source »

Time passed to a heavy back beat. In a giddy blur, Presley went on the Ed Sullivan Show, intimidated the adults of America and drove their kids into a frenzy. Parents said Elvis was suggestive, lewd, a greaser. To kids that was just the point. Elvis reveled in his performances. He used his music as an open invitation to release, and kids took...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Last Stop on the Mystery Train | 8/29/1977 | See Source »

...makes for every minute on the newscast, and she earned it. Walters fluffed nary a line, and even had two modest opening-night scoops. Newly deposed Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz suggested by telephone shortly before air time that Jimmy Carter should follow his example and resign for using lewd language. Egyptian President Anwar Sadat disclosed in a taped interview via satellite that he had been asked to send troops into Lebanon. "1 must tell you quite frankly, Bah-bar-ah," said the helpful newsmaker, "this is for the first time." He later congratulated her on her "million-dollar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Bah-bar-ah's Bow | 10/18/1976 | See Source »

...happy, healthy sexuality" (as John Simon would have it), then it looks like happy, healthy sex could get pretty boring. Perhaps Tacchella never intended his hero and heroine to be sexy, but the safe and cozy personae he has provided keep us from finding them really intriguing--the lewd, dangerous or unpredictable traits all belong to Pisier and Marchand. If Tacchella really wanted to present complicated and poignant personalities he wouldn't have polarized emotions as he has. We do root for Barrault and Lanoux as their affair escalates, as they begin to take a mischievous delight in flaunting their...

Author: By Brad Collins, | Title: Kissing Cousins | 10/7/1976 | See Source »

...House Drama Society struggles bravely. To squeeze every last ounce of humor from the show, director Richard Engelhart has his cast play as broadly as possible, so that where satire fails, farce takes over. In the process, he makes the most of the show's bawdiness, matching the already lewd dialogue with plenty of crotch-grabbing and adding some contemporary sexual cliches...

Author: By Julia M. Klein, | Title: One More Night at the Opera | 4/15/1976 | See Source »

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