Word: marquisate
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It all started because the Marquis de Sade had a lousy home life. His uncle, the abbe (John Huston), gave him mighty whuppings in the stable. His mother-in-law (Lilli Palmer) fooled him into marrying her ugly daughter, then quickly began to make untoward advances of her own. Small...
The new movie biography called de Sade is also painful. Keir Dullea appears as the troubled marquis, and his vulpine, immobile face helps him to range between anger ("Don't you ever say 'Enough' to me!") and pitiful pleading ("But if ... I changed?") with indifference. The orgies...
Between the extreme partisans?those who hail the phenomenon as liberation and those who condemn it as decadence?there is room for some serious con cern about what it means in American life. In a sense, the creative arts and even their sleazy offshoots?blue movies, smut books, peepshows, prurient...
For a long time, the theater lagged far behind the cinema in the realistic presentation of sex. Until recently, actors came on as fully clothed as if they were lunching at the Plaza. Then, all of a sudden, playwrights and directors decided that nudity was significant, artistic and serious. In...
Despite such shortcomings, Princes of the Renaissance offers modest rewards, as it could hardly fail to do considering the richness of the period. Even the statistics in such a book can be intriguing: the 800 mistresses of Niccolo d'Este, the Marquis of Ferrara (one cannot help wondering who...