Word: romps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...film is neither realistic nor imaginative, just perversely sentimental. It's set in a sterile New York City of empty streets, beautiful skylines, grassy parks, and colorful junkyards. Ten scrubbed youth-for-Nixon types romp through this wonderland discovering faith. These are good kids, close to the mainstream of American life. They don't smoke, drink, or care about sex. All of their emotions are conveniently sublimated into religious faith. When they do reach out to each other, it's in a sappy, harmless way. The modern day Jesus and his John the Baptist are played by two adolescent Adonises...
More rewarding was the aptly named Jackpot by Gerald Arpino, the company's resident choreographer. It was a mod, witty duet that suggested a Greek god and goddess having a sexual romp in outer space. As the curtain lifted, a shower of colored star beams descended to reveal Glenn White flexing his muscles on a cube-shaped platform. From behind the cube popped the curvy figure of Erika Goodman, who led White on a merry chase that culminated twelve minutes later in a highly suggestive climax. The cube lit up, a smoke bomb went off, rubber balls soared through...
Combating hardships of reading period and flu epidemics, the 'Cliffe swimmers showed enthusiasm throughout their week of preparation and during the meet. "We're just now peaking for our home invitational meet." Captain Cervilla said in the locker room last night after the romp...
...romp, Taylor got almost all of his team on the ice, and must of the offence second. No one had a hat trick, but Burke. Wyett and Haley each scored two goals. Don Bolduc, Kevin Care, Jimmy Aiken, Allen Peacock, Walter Herbert and Phelps Swilt also scored in the afternoon...
...theaters and television stations refuse to touch such controversial material. So far it has been shown in public theaters only in New York and Boston, where most of the people who saw it were probably not surprised. It deserves time on national television, certainly as much as the latest romp to the moon, but has been aired only by an educational network in New York City...