Word: sexe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...maidenly squeals of the U.S. regarding Sweden's sex habits are most unbecoming. In a land where that national substitute for royalty-The Hollywood Crowd -has made a game of sex and a mockery of marriage; in a land where the vitality, or much of it, which made this country powerful has trickled down two generations to find itself running cloudily through the veins of foolish old men like Tommy Manville and foolish young pimps like Minot Jelke; where 22-year-old boys slip,cyanide into their parents' champagne; where middle-aged mothers and grandmothers moon like adolescents...
...publishers themselves. New York state decided that self-censorship is not enough. Last week Governor Averell Harriman signed into law a bill making it a crime (maximum penalty: $500 fine, one year in prison) to sell "obscene and objectionable comics" to minors, or to use such words as "crime, sex, horror, terror" in comic-book titles. The protests of comic-book publishers were joined by book and newspaper publishers; they pointed out that the wording of the law was subject to loose interpretation as to what is "objectionable." They also opposed even more strongly the part of the law that...
...never more so than when she spoofs; she slinks and invites and caresses, kicks up her heels, swings her legs, coils and uncoils her hips, sends garments flying-all the while singing such ditties as Whatever Lola Wants . . . Lola Gets. She wears a double crown: no one can make sex more seductive, or more hilarious...
...Cinemactress Ruth Roman sailed for England to star in a new film version of Macbeth that sounded more like Mickey Spillane than Shakespeare. Said Actress Roman: "We're doing Macbeth on a sex basis. I'm playing a slut (Lily Macbeth). Joe Macbeth (Paul Douglas) is a gangster who turns yellow and leaves the killing up to Lily. I'll do it with a revolver. We thought a knife would be too bloody...
...Britain's film censor, Arthur T. L. Watkins, delivered an ultimatum to U.S. producers (whose movies last year grossed $109,992,000 in Britain): "Anyone who prolongs scenes of violence is only doing so to titillate a small unhealthy section of the audience." More broadminded about sex than U.S. censors, Watkins long ago abandoned the taboo on picturing husbands and wives in bed together by commenting: "Where else would you expect them to sleep nights...