Word: licien
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...licien Marceau) is a French sex farce with more head than bed in it, though on Broadway it tries to keep grinning from leer to leer...
...this point, Vadim's amused, amusing manner suggests that he is merely playing games of love. But suddenly, surreally, as in the cautionary cartoons of Honoré Daumier or Félicien Rops, the mask of painted sophistication is ripped away to reveal the grinning skull with its swarm of worms. In a vicious series of rebounding betrayals, the husband is murdered, the wife is disfigured, the virtuous young mother goes insane...
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