Word: priapean
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There is something to be said (but not much) for any writer who can think up titles like Sexus, Plexus and Nexus. The names chime like a singing commercial piped by Priapean elves, all trying to jolly the reader into putting up once more with that old boudoir Bolshevik, Henry Miller, the Lenin of the dirty-word revolution...
...Satyricon of Petronius, translated by William Arrowsmith. A skilled classicist provides the best English version yet of the Priapean satire by Nero's arbiter of elegance...
...Satyricon of Petronius, translated by William Arrowsmith. A classicist provides the best English version yet of the Priapean satire by Nero's arbiter of elegance...
...Satyricon of Petronius, translated by William Arrowsmith. An unembarrassed classicist provides the best English version yet of the Priapean satire by Nero's arbiter of elegance...
...been consummated because Baby Doll, who is 19. does not yet consider herself, as she daintily phrases it, "ready for marriage." Frustrated in both business and pleasure, Archie goes berserk one night and burns down the syndicate gin. The rest of the picture describes, with a degree of Priapean detail that might well have embarrassed Boccaccio, how the syndicate's manager (Eli Wallach) gets his revenge; he not only seduces Baby Doll, but persuades her to give him evidence that it was Archie who burned down...
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