Word: prudishly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...public, Hughes was often seen with the stars of the day−Billie Dove, Lana Turner, Linda Darnell, Katharine Hepburn, Ginger Rogers, Ava Gardner, Ida Lupino. In private, he visited many others−young, eager, and not too prudish unknowns. Hughes called them "crows," but he feared rebuff even from them. It was the job of one of his public relations men to see that the green light was up before Hughes ever appeared on the scene. He once boasted that he had deflowered 200 virgins in Hollywood; the wonder was that he could find so many...
...seducers, Joey (Paul Valjean) and Carl (Wayne John Rodda), are portrayed as expatriate sexual conquistadores, but their conversation is self-defeating. Typically, Joey apostrophizes an ideal "woman in whom prudery and lasciviousness battle for supremacy." Thanks to a prudish legal system that forbids the guillotining of people who speak that way, the pair are allowed to continue yapping and fornicating until even Director Jens Jørgen Thorsen wearies of the charade...
...Glenda Jackson, who made her reputation as Charlotte Corday in the Royal Shakespeare Company's Marat-Sade. Playing the repressed, inflammable Gudrun, she is a total re-creation of the impassioned, nearly liberated woman whose yards of shapeless clothes could not conceal her unrelieved sexual longing, and whose prudish conversation was almost always alive with allusions...
...also defend the balletic, bloody violence in The Wild Bunch on the grounds that, like a child's mock shootout, it is "no more real than dozens of gunfights I have already survived in the company of Rex Allen, Hopalong Cassidy and John Wayne." Nor is he prudish when it comes to a well-turned dash of décolletage. "If there's anything drearier than a dirty movie with a false moral tacked onto it," he wrote of 491, "it's the false moral without the dirty movie...