Word: prudishness
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...which a physician urges couples to explore and "conjure up various positions and actions of sexual intercourse." Old taboos are slowly beginning to disappear, and while the upper and educated classes were always more adventurous in their techniques, sexual class lines show signs of fading. Reportedly declining are such prudish practices as making love with one's clothes on or in total darkness...
...will interest Westerners chiefly because it lets the light of day shine on some ideas new to the insular world of Soviet cinema. Director Grigori Chukhrai, who proved his talent with the sensitive, romanticized Ballad of a Soldier, tells a tale of illicit love-and tells it straight, without prudish apologies, against a background of post-World War II political tyranny. The off-screen villain of the piece is Joseph Stalin...
...taut, terrible stillness of Thérèse's face. Actress Riva never fails him. On her wedding day, "the wild force seething inside," she stands in church like someone paralyzed by news of disaster. Her disaster is Bernard-superbly played by Philippe Noiret as a prudish bourgeois lout whose only concerns are family pride and the valuable pine trees on his estate at Argelouse. Living with him, Thérèse sees no way out until the day he falls ill from an accidental overdose of a medicine containing arsenic. She begins to get ideas...
...health-giving qualities and list the ingredients. The Germans also prefer directness; to sell, a soap must stress cleansing power rather than fluffy wash or handy container. The Spanish have a confident serenity, and ads that suggest snob appeal fall flat. Italians, though they bred Gina and Sophia, are prudish about sex and seminudity. "We can't present a woman as a sex kitten," moans an adman in Italy, where the Maidenform girl is photographed modestly at home and forgoes Freudian dreams...
...world as it really was. The prudes dealt easily enough with the mountain; it became, and still remains. Camel's Hump. They had more trouble with the literary movement. For decades it was a standoff; realism did not disappear, but neither were the early realists (themselves nearly as prudish as their critics) able to keep their promise and describe the world...