Word: priapic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there had been all those Sputniks-Mechtas and Vostoks-beeping overhead, clockwork reminders that the heavens were in the hands of the godless Bolshevik. The script had gone awry. A nation only 40 years from feudalism was secretly lobbing what looked like customized samovars at the free world while priapic Vanguards and Jupiters wilted on their pads or exploded prematurely for all the world to see. Democracy could be embarrassing...
...comedy-and Soap has its funny moments-is about race, sex and religion. Until the ABC censors got wind of it, the show's writers had plotted Father Flotsky's seduction in church by Corinne, then an exorcism for their baby. The priapic tennis pro may still be killed-with his racket-stringing machine-after one of his love matches...
...Marie-France Pisier and Guy Marchand, who are off making love. This latest infidelity is only one more in a long line of similar abuses both Barrault and Lanoux have suffered over the course of their decade-long marriages. Pisier is an impulsive and flirtatious gamine and Marchand a priapic cad who insists on relieving his guilt by telling his wife all the lurid details. If that isn't enough to stack the deck in favor of Barrault and Lanoux, we also find out that they, unlike their incorrigibly promiscuous mates, have for the most part remained stolidly faithful. They...
Shaft in Africa finds the priapic private investigator John Shaft (Richard Roundtree) on the trail of a ring of modern-day slave traders, who railroad unsuspecting blacks from Africa to Paris and put them to work at menial tasks for starvation wages. This sorry situation is brought to Shaft's attention in an unlikely manner: a large black fellow with a big stick chases the startled detective around his Greenwich Village apartment, brains him and bears him off to the suburban residence of an African diplomat, where he is tested, cajoled and finally hired to hunt down the slavers...
...boredom -acedia. Affluent Roman days, according to Miss Pullar, were "great plains of monotony punctuated with affairs and mealtimes," often conducted simultaneously. (In a special appendix the twin hungers for food and sex are related by Miss Pullar, who is now at work on a biography of that priapic trencherman, Frank Harris...