Word: sexe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Believable Make-Believe. The week's outstanding show, and the one that was certain to offend no one of any age, sex, race or religion, was NBC's Peter Pan. Mary Martin came soaring out of a canvas sky to enchant some 55 million viewers-10 million fewer than watched last year's Peter Pan, but still far and away the largest audience for any TV event of the current season. This second look at Barrie's fable confirmed the remembered excellence of Jerome Robbins' production and the believable make-believe of Mary Martin...
...professor of History said, moving his chair a little closer to the Common Room fire, "but I don't like to be pushed. As a matter of fact, despite my reticence, I think it's safe to say that I've had my share of success with the opposite sex." This was an arrant lie, of course, but we listened, interested...
Porgy shocked the Russians with its portrayal of life in the raw and sex in the open along Catfish Row on the Charleston, S.C. waterfront. The audience reacted with gasps. But at the final curtain they rushed the stage and gave the cast a ten-minute ovation. Radio Moscow called it "a great success...
...Sex on Catfish Row. At the opening last week in the huge auditorium of the Palace of Cultural and Industrial Cooperatives, the Stars and Stripes flew beside the Hammer and Sickle while the band played The Star-Spangled Banner and the Anthem of the Soviet Union. The house was packed, and dapper Lorenzo Fuller brought it down before the curtain went up by saying, "Dobro Pozhalovat Druzya -Welcome, friends...
Inevitably he nuzzles at puppy love. The girl Wanda has "elfin-upslanting eyes" and "wheaten lashes," and when Tone is near, she deep-breathes like "a deer chased by dogs." An older woman, a German, finally initiates Tone in the mysteries of sex ("Aber Gott . . . you are so young'1). Meanwhile Author Boles unravels a skein of subplots. Readers will find themselves aging rather more rapidly than Tone, who keeps himself in shape by doing knee-bends in moments of crisis and repeating that everything is "mighty very fine." The same cannot be said of Author Boles...