Word: libido
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...children question her sexuality as they struggle to realize their own in a society which has grossly exaggerated the size of Black libido. And so, Angelou says, the Black mother must offer a strong self to her children that will successfully counter the stereotypes society will offer them...
...marriage to Janice is on again, glumly and apparently for good. They live with her mother and sock away money. Rabbit thinks less and less about his days as a high school basketball star and the B-league scoring record he set in 1951. Even his formidable libido has begun to show signs of acting its age: "Somewhere early in the Carter Administration his interest, that had been pretty faithful, began to wobble and by now there is a real crisis of confidence...
...became the leader of Swaziland the year Warren G. Harding moved into the White House. Last week, on the 60th anniversary of the old Lion's rule-the longest of any living monarch-he was feted by countrymen and visiting dignitaries. Heralded as much for his libido as his longevity, Sobhuza is said to have more than 100 wives and is well on his way to earning another moniker: "Father of His Country." The old Lion has reportedly sired no fewer than 500 children...
...sight of Carole Landis and Victor Mature grunting lustfully through One Million B.C. was enough to satisfy 1940 preteens; the vision of Raquel Welch in One Million Years B.C. engorged many a Saturday-matinee libido 26 years later...
...film's steamy sex scenes-especially the first, which takes place in the kitchen among foods and utensils as elemental as love and death-will raise eyebrows and temperatures. In part this is because The Postman appears at a time when moviemakers seem to have forgotten that the libido exists, in part because these scenes are the film's only submissions to spontaneity. This Postman is a true period piece-not 1934, but the early '70s, when American and European directors were investigating functions of the apocalyptic orgasm from behind a modernist screen. Like Last Tango...