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...couple in our mid-20s, my husband and I are all too familiar with the sexual demands that have been placed upon our society, primarily by the advertising media. What woman today isn't made to feel sexually lacking if she isn't celery-stalk slim, beautifully made-up all the time and sexually appeased nearly that often? And consider the poor husband whose wife is in any way lacking these things. Amid all this confusion, the article on Masters and Johnson was somehow reassuring...
...those fighting to keep the writers' union committed to the liberalization program of 1968. Kundera's novel of Czech Stalinism, The Joke, has the directness of a fist in the face; it has been made into a film shown at Cannes this year. Ptakovina is a made-up word, literally "Birdtrick," meaning stupidity...
Shalako--Sean Connery and a heavily made-up Brigitte Bardot in a western which instinct tells us isn't much good. To be reviewed next week. At the PARAMOUNT, Washington St. across from Raymond...
...Nakobov is best when his characters bear the same watermark as himself. Some of his "made-up" characters are good, but they cannot compare to the boy in "First Love," the aging lover in "Spring in Fialta," Pnin, or Humbert Humbert of Lolita, all of whom clearly resemble the author. Lolita, that beautiful and hilarious love story, is still his greatest novel...
...camerawork is sometimes a bit fuzzy but nearly always unobtrusive. It captures the rich staginess of classical ballet, with all its shaky flats and thickly made-up faces. It even preserves Nureyev's finesse at milking curtain calls...