Word: lewdness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...calamity, he was inspired: "If Gladstone fell into the Thames, that would be a misfortune, and if anyone pulled him out, that, I suppose, would be a calamity." Some English insults are sharp. Nye Bevan on Anthony Eden: "The juvenile lead." Some are odd. Charles Kingsley called Shelley "a lewd vegetarian." It sounds interesting but is difficult to picture. The top of the line was created by John Wilkes for the Earl of Sandwich...
...could say this is a sexy Tarzan film," says Bo Derek, "but there is nothing lewd or obscene about it. It's pure sex, and there's a lot of nudity, but it all appears very natural...
Which is not to deprecate the individual performances, which are generally quite good. Ellin Merhbach is wonderful as Laurie, the lewd bank-teller; she's titillated by the vortex, but she's got enough common sense to avoid its bottom. Michael Escamilla's lazy affected drawl is the perfect voice of doom, and he fills the part of Charlie completely. Maggie Topkis, for the most part, pulls off her characterization of Carol as the tough but sensitive New York Jewish earth mother. Alex Pearson is adequate as the seductive con on the make; if he has some problems, it might...
...Lowell's audience found it impossible to resist a literal interpretation of these poems; they saw the sister of the president of Harvard cavorting nude with female amorists in bathtubs and swimming pools. What the Bostonian intended as harmless and playful looked lewd and lascivious, as though she were flaunting her nude figure and amorous desires in the faces of her beholders...seeing this unexpectedly large woman stand upon a stage reciting verse of this nature, and knowing at the same time that she was a Lowell, was enough to knock the stuffing out of any self-respecting crowd...
...somewhere in exurbia. Their plans for a normal Friday night have been made without reckoning on Harry and Ramona, a younger couple newly ensconced in the only other house on the block. Ramona appears first, while Enid is in the kitchen seeing to supper, and makes some lewd advances toward Earl...