Word: orals
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...That particular revelation came during one of the "depth interviews" conducted in the name of motivational research, the way-out wing of advertising in which the Freudian sell is rudimentary. As all admen know, people don't buy products, they buy psychological satisfaction: the promise of beauty, not cosmetics; oral gratification, not cigarettes. Depthwise, baking a cake is supposedly a re- enactment of childbirth and shaving a form of castration. Speed and performance, or a sense of male power, are blatantly stressed in automobile commercials. Cars become wild animals or fish Wildcat, Impala, Cougar, Stingray, Barracuda. When a man slips...
...Whoever commits the abominable and detestable crime against nature with mankind or beast shall be deemed guilty of sodomy." In such indirect language, an Indiana statute makes oral or anal intercourse a crime. Even if he knew about the law, Charles Cotner of Jasper County, Ind., could hardly believe that it covered married couples in the privacy of their bedrooms...
With so little plot, there is ample time for assorted stage business. At one point, two men simulate making love to the nympho, sandwich-fashion. At another, a mother opens her blouse to suckle her grown son. As in The Beard, there is a vivid portrayal of an oral sex act. Director Tom O'Horgan, who also staged Hair and Tom Paine, keeps his cast dancing around in a style that blends early Martha Graham with late Cotton Club...
...last week stockholders at American Home's annual meeting in Wilmington, Del., heard even more good news. With final Food and Drug Administration approval at last in hand, American Home will soon be entering the burgeoning (now $100 million-a-year) birth-control market with an oral contraceptive called Ovral. Under development for nine years, Ovral, says the company, is the first completely synthetic steroid birth-control pill; American Home expects it to win sales from the 19 other versions of the pill now on the market, by helping to eliminate unwanted side-effects...
Above and behind his reverence which extends to oral encounters between Piet and Foxy-looms Updike's central metaphor. He finds in sex an expression of his own Piet-like quest to recapture the past. Nostalgia suffuses him, goads him, at times frightens him. At home, in Ipswich, Mass., Updike spends hours leafing through boyhood photograph albums. "I find old photographs powerful," he says. "There's a funny thing about the way the flux of time was halted at this particular spot. You just can't get back...