Word: lust
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When New York Customs men put the arm on twelve questionable books mailed from France (sample titles: Sodom, Lust, Busy Bodies') and kept them impounded for five months, the importer, one Mel Friedman, decided to fight back. "Having concluded that the Government suppressed the books for an unlawfully protracted time" without initiating any legal proceeding, said Frankel, it was only proper that they be released-"even though we go on the assumption that the books are indeed obscene...
...giant C-130 cargo planes and F-4 Phantom jet fighters returning from combat taxied down on a new 10,000-ft. runway. "When we landed last June," said Colonel William F. Hart of the 35th Engineers Group, "there was one pier here and that's about all. lust look...
Another theme is labeled Inferiority Complex. And the tiny images that speckle these works are ciphers but also reference points dotted on the topography of his own thoughts. A cartoon imitation of a World War I biplane suggests war; corsets and garter belts spell out the paraphernalia of lust; a woman's pelvis is decorated with the design of a jet engine. "The life force," says Baruchello, "is supplied with fuel from two reservoirs-love and fear...
...19th century trail breakers despised Bouguereau (Cézanne cried, "J'emmerde Bouguereau!"; Matisse fled his studio in anger). Though his brush stroke was immaculate, his subject matter tended toward soaring echelons of well-stuffed nymphs in the buff, ruddy satyrs in postures of half prayer, half lust. When religiosity overcame him, he produced limpid-eyed madonnas and tableaux of martyrs (preferably female) borne by Roman-nosed pallbearers (preferably male). In the heyday of the Second Empire, no one admitted being titillated by his tangles of tushies and concupiscent cupids; the critics professed to see only the pursuit...
Maria! dusts off a sliver of plot about a team of carnival song-and-dance girls, both named Maria, touring the fleshpots of a mythical Central American republic in 1907. Enhancing a collection of dazzling period costumes, they inspire lust-and frequently satisfy it-from stop to stop. They invent the striptease, seizing with girlish delight upon a gaping seam and a stubborn snap as though the benefits to mankind might rival the discovery of radium. Finally, they fall jointly in love with a doomed revolutionary (George Hamilton) and continue to inflame the peasantry in his name. As Maria...