Word: prude
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wonders whether the schmerz includes repressed sexual feelings. "The chocolate fudge sundaes we put away when we should have had sex!" Trilling says, adding "But I do not think it hurt us to wait, either." Trilling is not a prude. The sexual revolution did not upset her sense of propriety, but was nevertheless cause for concern. Sexual relationships did not relieve the students' loneliness...
...issue," she said. "What is new is our numbers, our strength, our rage, and our refusal to cower at the accusation, prude...
WATCHING GOIN' SOUTH makes you think Burt Reynolds must have had something to do with it. The cutting one-liners are tossed off with a certain macho flair, the male lead is yet another in a series of adorable scoundrel types, and the woman is one more unfulfilled, sublimated prude who all too willingly gives herself up to the irresistible charms of a confirmed ne'er-do-well. The film, in fact, aspires to little more than giving the audience a good belly laugh every 15 minutes or so. Your funny bone is taken good care of, all right...
Privacy of Public Officials The newspapers have made me a prude. I can't get away with a thing. Listen, if I wanted to cut a caper with a promiscuous broad, I'd have to find one who was an Eskimo and meet in her igloo, and I'd probably have to wear a beard...
...unpleasant to reveal anything about sex," Travers felt he could create characters like Alma, the heroine of Bed. By the last act, Alma is chasing her fatigued new husband back into the bedroom; audiences affectionately cheer her on to a rendezvous that completes the comic transformation from Victorian prude to exuberant earth mother...