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...last week announced its Comic Book Code, which will be enforced by Censor Charles F. Murphy, former New York City magistrate. Among the provisions: ¶ The words "horror" and "terror" are not permitted as comic-book titles, and no "scenes of horror, excessive bloodshed, gory or gruesome crimes, depravity, lust, sadism or masochism" are allowed. ¶ Sympathy for criminals, "unique details" of a crime, or any treatment that tends to "create disrespect for established authority" are banned. ¶ "Profanity, obscenity, smut, vulgarity, ridicule of racial or religious groups" are not allowed, and "all characters shall be depicted in dress reasonably...
Prospering in the Pharaoh's favor, the soldier aspires to the hand of the Pharaoh's sister (Gene Tierney), but the young physician cannot heal himself of his lust for a whore of Babylon (Bella Darvi). In time, Sinuhe is cured by the love of a servant girl (Jean Simmons...
Todd Lincoln. Following six previous biographical novels, e.g., Lust for Life (Painter Van Gogh). The President's Lady (Andrew Jackson's wife, Rachel), his latest has the birthmarks of another big bestseller. As Stone's Lincoln steps onstage, he is a feckless, unkempt rube who wolfs his food and says, "Ain't that a caution!" Mary Todd, on the other hand, is "quality folks," with a vocabulary of Basic French (au revoir, soupcon, carte blanche). In Stone's version, it is not Lincoln who lifts himself to eminence by his bootstraps, but Mary who raises...
actresses ("all look alike . . . wiggling their rear ends"), television ("worse than the movies"), movies ("brutality, lust, sex and suffering"), and Americans in general ("peasant stock"). With that off his mind, Brando got back into character: "Actually, I don't give a damn." Jaime Ortiz Patino, 25, nephew of Bolivia's gold-laden tin magnate, reported to Roman police that he is minus one bride. The-vanished one: Joanne Connelly Sweeny Patino, 23, Manhattan's "most beautiful debutante" of 1948, divorced last November by Britain's former Amateur Golf Champion Robert Sweeny, who named fast-moving Dominican...
...when the young shepherd returned home unexpectedly and found his lamb folded into bed with "a man with a large mustache." Beside the bed sat a second gent, waiting his turn. Poor Hecht fled "this hellish sight"-but not without recalling appropriate words of Swinburne: 0 lips full of lust and of laughter, Curled snakes that are fed from my breast...