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Word: maximus (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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 1965, Jean-Paul Marat briefly flashed his gluteus maximus in Marat/Sade. As the marquis warned in the same play, "The revolution of the flesh will make all your other revolutions seem like prison mutinies." And so it almost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Sex as a Spectator Sport | 7/11/1969 | See Source »

...magnificent cast-iron statue of the Lion of Judah. Though he is pleased with the return of the symbol of his legendary succession from King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, Emperor Haile Selassie is not satisfied. The trophy he wants most still stands near Rome's Circus Maximus. It is a finely carved, 83-ft. granite obelisk that once rose above Ethiopia's ancient capital of Axum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jan. 17, 1969 | 1/17/1969 | See Source »

JERRY JEFF WALKER: MR. BOJANGLES (ATCO). A zestful romp of a first album by a 27-year-old graduate of the rock group Circus Maximus. The boundaries of Walker's country style are broad enough to take in rock, ballads and the blues. The Ballad of the Hulk, though a little long and repetitive, is an object lesson in how to protest without falling into a dreary drone. His targets include the Vatican, divorce and the draft ("I have but one country to give for my life"). The spirit is so infectious that even squares may applaud the lines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Nov. 22, 1968 | 11/22/1968 | See Source »

...Ballots and Bandwagons, Ralph G. Martin saw it as "a glorified national town meeting, mixed with a sense of circus and a huge tremor of hope and history." To H. L. Mencken, it was "vulgar, ugly, stupid, tedious, hard upon both the higher cerebral centers and the gluteus maximus. And yet there suddenly comes a show so gaudy and hilarious, so melodramatic and obscene, so unimaginably exhilarating and preposterous that one lives a gorgeous year in an hour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Scene On The Strip | 8/9/1968 | See Source »

...eventually became tiresome distractions; the electronic sounds some-times rambled and screeched. Yet the shattering of conventional concert categories was exhilarating, and the music at its best did reach White's goal of achieving "some great moments," notably in a delightful collaboration between the Pro Musica and Circus Maximus on Guillaume de Machaut's 14th century song Douce Dame Jolie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Avant-Garde: Adventure in Affinities | 1/5/1968 | See Source »

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