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...actors and actresses in this skit made their caricatures authentic and skillfully enunciated the unusual dialogue. Sperling particularly stood out for her impish smile and flirty but prudish body language...
...through engravings, above all, that Mantegna was able to reimagine classical motifs in all their grief, exaltation and lust. The satyr clutching the drunken boy in his Bacchanal with a Wine Vat has to be the sharpest and least prudish image of homosexual desire in all Renaissance art. The mountainous folds of skirt in Mantegna's engraving of the Virgin and Child, arguably the most beautiful print made by any Italian during the Renaissance and only to be rivaled by Durer, support a protective gesture of inexpressible tenderness, in which the Madonna seems to be drawing her son back into...
...exact science. My own sense is that the current line is somewhere between a dalliance or two many years ago and more energetic misbehavior recently. More forthright testing of that line might produce some pleasant surprises for those journalists who fear that their fellow citizens are too prudish for the country's good. At the least, it would force the citizenry to decide how much they really care about a candidate's sexual history, and might thereby hasten the day when journalists could, with a clean conscience, stop reporting such matters...
Hill, who is single, allows few diversions from her work. But her friends insist that she has never been prudish or hypersensitive. "She was not a church mouse," says William Kennard, a Washington lawyer who was a close friend at Yale. Bill Hassler is a Washington attorney who was a friend of Hill's at law school, where he would confide to her the details of his romantic ups and downs. She would listen, he recalls, without embarrassment. "I wouldn't hesitate to invite her to an R-rated movie," he says...
...prevalence of onscreen sexual assault is all the more remarkable because censors in India are generally quite prudish. Lovemaking and even kissing scenes are banned. Yet the censors regard rape as permissible as long as the camera conceals as much as it reveals. Says Vimla Farooqui, a women's activist in New Delhi: "Rape scenes are used for an ugly kind of titillation...