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...Arts. A year and a half after she left Warsaw, almost certainly not to return, she is still a force there. Gustaw Holoubek, her first theater coach, recalls her "incredible freshness. She had no complexes. She loved a man, for instance, and she did it ostentatiously. She was not prudish." Her friend Actress Iwona Sloczynska says, "Like Brigitte Bardot, she was a little bit of an animal. She wanted to tear away from her background; I was not surprised when she left Poland...
MUCH of the fun in G&S stems from the subtlety with which Gilbert carries off naughty innuendos. Yet while the scripts are not excessively prudish, they are firmly rooted in the Victorian age. Too much flesh and physical contact--whether sexual or violent--clashes with the authors' original intentions. Consequently, the interactions between the King's eldest daughter Princess Zara and the English soldier Captain Fitzbattleaxe are overly expressive. Her attempts to undress the captain would have seemed highly inappropriate to a period audience, and are still jarring today. In particular, the violent dispute between Scaphio and Phantis...
...stiff and prudish and homely and a do-gooder. She signed innumerable petitions and promoted countless social causes without questioning their country of origin or their ultimate goal. But she could also be brainy, fearless and tough, and just hammy enough at times to take the curse off her indomitable goodness. After all, when impressionists mimicked Eleanor Roosevelt's buck-toothed smile, they were also repeating her messages on tolerance and humanity...
...refusing ads for porno magazines, The Crimson is setting itself up as a prudish censor. Screw offends not for its depiction of sexually explicit subjects--which have, on occasion, appeared in The Crimson and do not in themselves offend us--but for its promotion of sexual exploitation. There is a critical and easily discernible distinction between the two; and until society and its institutions, like The Crimson, learn to draw it better, both equality between the sexes and a healthy attitude towards sexuality will remain unattainable...
...currently serializing At the Last Frontier by Valentin Pikul. The book is a canny mix of fact and rumor about the monk, whose skill in doctoring the Tsarina's sick son gained him inordinate influence over the royal family in the final decade of the Russian empire. By prudish Soviet standards, Pikul's empurpled prose is downright lurid. In one key scene, for example, Rasputin sneaks up to the Tsarina as she prays for her hemophiliac son. Out of the shadows steps the "bony peasant, his face framed by long hair parted in the center and glistening with...