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Word: outshocks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1964-1964
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...suggests more of morals and immorals to more people than any other single force. Gone with Marilyn Monroe is the last, and perhaps the greatest, of the sex symbols. Lesser girls in ever crasser if no more honest stories now symbolize very little except Hollywood's desire to outshock TV (easy because the living room still imposes some restraints) and outsex foreign movies (impossible). European films have the best-looking girls; they also have a natural, if sometimes amoral, attitude toward sex, somewhere between a shrug and a prayer, between desire and fatigue, which makes Hollywood eroticism seem coyly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Morals: The Second Sexual Revolution | 1/24/1964 | See Source »

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