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Word: seducees (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Weighing the case of a Justice Department worker who had been fired for spurning the sexual advances of her boss, U.S. District Court Judge Charles R. Richey last week tried to apply some firm rules of law to such indelicate situations. He came close to succeeding, then fell on his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Power Switch Hitters | 5/3/1976 | See Source »

Confronted with the death camps, Pasqualino's thirst for life provokes him to invent a plan which represents the complete abandonment of dignity in the name of survival; he will seduce the commandant (Shirley Stoller) in order to eat. In a series of pathetic but comic scenes which show that...

Author: By Jonathan Zeitlin, | Title: Amare Macht Frei | 2/12/1976 | See Source »

OTHER ACTORS, however, are clearly a notch above their material. Charlie Weinstein's stage presence as Wenceslas, the schoolmaster whose ward Hasty tries unsuccessfully to seduce, almost revives the play near the beginning of the second act, though eventually he too gets bogged down in the inanity of the dialogue...

Author: By Julia M. Klein, | Title: If Thy Eye Offend Thee | 10/29/1975 | See Source »

Theresa leaves her Bronx home to attend City College, where she becomes entangled with a sadistic, egotistical, boorish college professor and willingly loses her virginity. The professor is the only man in Looking for Mr. Goodbar that Rossner is able to portray convincingly. No longer young, he is interested in...

Author: By Pooh Shapiro, | Title: A One-Night Affair | 9/27/1975 | See Source »

While the film's intention is basically problematic, its execution hopelessly confuses the issue of individual responsibility for the deportation. The hero is, in fact, a thoroughly self-indulgent overprivileged youth, whose motivations fluctuate between a need to shore up his self-esteem by playing at heroism and a desire...

Author: By Jonathan Zeitlin, | Title: The French Occupation and the Jews | 5/23/1975 | See Source »

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