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Third, spicy and well-advertised novels--Lady Chatterly's Lover, The Story of O, Marquis de Sade's Complete Works (in French). Also included here are such under-the-pillow classics as Come to My Parlor, which was widely banned when first published in 1934.
Keep It in the Family might have been called Bringing Down Father. Father is a tyrannical martinet who stamps on the egos of his wife and children as if they were vermin. The eeriest sight of the evening was watching Patrick Magee's performance as the domineering parent: apparently...
Odds Against Amateurs. For more sophisticated plungers, options come in varied forms with arcane names-"strips," "straps," "straddles" and "spreads"-that conjure up visions of the Marquis de Sade. Actually, they are only combinations of puts and calls. A straddle is a put and a call on the same stock...
The Marquis de Sade and Genet
Baring-Gould, who was a promotion writer at Time Inc. until his death last month, did his scholarly best to establish the limerick in early English tradition, with versions that reach back to the first modern lyric-"Sumer is icumen in"-but the classic limerick goes back no further than...