Word: sexe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...McCullough Lee, 55, of Portland, Ore., as chairman of the Subversive Activities Control Board, to succeed onetime Ohio Governor Thomas J. Herbert, recently elected to the Ohio Supreme Court. Chosen mayor of Portland in 1948, Republican Lee displayed the kind of independence necessary for her new job: announcing that "sex, as such, has no place in politics," she declared all-out war on prostitution and gambling dens. Losing a second-term try in 1952, she was named by Ike to the Justice Department's Parole Board, then to the Subversive Activities Control Board last August to succeed fellow Northwesterner...
...Germany Off Limits is already a bestseller. The crass coating of sex and corn on this propaganda pill, plus the easygoing American tendency to let bygones be bygones, may make the book almost as successful in the U.S., although it is rubbish. Off Limits mounts hundreds of unrelated, postage-stamp vignettes of the occupation years 1945 to 1951 side by side. Amid the meandering plots and subplots, readers will meet the following unattractive Americans: an intelligence major who forms a sado-masochistic liaison with the Ile Koch-like widow of a concentration-camp commandant, a Jewish captain who allows...
...Waltz of the Toreadors is an import from London, not Madrid. (The Spanish know better.) There is a lot of frank talk about sex, at the Colonial...
...Spellman, who mounted the pulpit of St. Patrick's Cathedral to condemn it. The villains are the advertising men who designed the singularly repulsive poster which decorates, among other things, a whole block of Times Square in Manhattan. While it is the usual practice for publicity men to emphasize sex in every film they promote, this time they have done us a real disservice, for their work is largely responsible for starting a controversy that only obscures the quality of the film. Baby Doll is neither as good nor as bad as various partisans have argued, and certainly...
People expecting another big Brattle sex party, contrary to the advertisements, won't get it this week, but they'll see a very fine movie instead...