Word: sexe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Trials. What had been the motive for the murders? Robbery? Sex? Sheer perversity? No one could say, and everyone had a different theory. Most of the salient evidence had been trampled underfoot on a muddy road more than two years before. What was left had been talked to shreds in months of contradic tory testimony. On the eve of his summing up, the prosecuting attorney was struck with laryngitis and had to rush off to the hospital. The presiding judge himself threw up his hands. "I've seen a lot of trials in my day," he began-and could...
...Angeles that two of her early films (now popular in the stag-party circuit) were not, as the Post Office suggested, "obscene, lewd and lascivious." Said Judge Ernest A. Tolin: "To say the films (How to Be an Exotic Dancer, The Waste-Basket Blues) have no reference to sex would be naive in the ultimate . The movements ... are not particularly different from those of the popular dances of the day. The costumes . . . while something considerably less than the usual street dress, are not materially less than usual, modern beach wear...
With the carrot of sex before and the lash of culture behind, the killer is soon trotting docilely down the straight and narrow. Even an unattractively moral collie, who obviously thinks he is more intelligent than anyone else in the picture (and may be, at that), condescends to lick his hand. Moreover, Sheriff McNally -a character who has to be unpleasant on principle, since the scriptwriter forgot to give him any specific motivations-mellows a little, too, and in the end they all charge off to Utah together as cheerily as vestrymen to a box supper on the church lawn...
...Freshman Smoker, traditionally a sex and beer brawl, will be toned down this year...
This book has about as much in common with the run of historical novels as a Roman bust with Marilyn Monroe's. The novel deals with the turbulent second century, but French Author Yourcenar shuns sex and sadism, keeps the defenseless slave maidens in the background and the Saturnalia under control. She allows the sick and aging Emperor Hadrian, ruler of the Western world, to tell his own story in a letter to his 17-year-old adopted grandson, Marcus Aurelius. Hadrian enjoys a good orgy from time to time as much as the next Roman, and he practices...