Word: sexe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bread, Love and Dreams (Titanus; I.F.E.) is a pleasant little Italian-made comedy distinguished only by its star: Gina Lollobrigida. For U.S. moviegoers it provides the first chance to watch Europe's biggest sex bomb (TIME, Aug. 16) in an all-out explosion. The devastation is impressive...
...pretty Wilma Montesi herself had died, obscurely on an Ostia beach 13 miles southwest of Rome (TIME, Feb. 15). At first her death was dismissed as accidental drowning, then came hints of murder. Suddenly sparked by a criminal libel suit, a vast scandal flared up, involving sex, narcotics, and playboys with high connections. The trial produced lurid accounts of the ringleader, one Ugo Montagna, whose claim to be a Sicilian marquis proved to be bogus but whose talent in another direction was undeniable: despite his luxurious way of life, he paid little income tax, and got away with it. Also...
...overaggressive sex comedy, it has been broadened by foreign travel but scarcely brightened, and Tallulah should have thought twice about appearing in it. No doubt she did, and chose it not as challenge but as a field day. Playing a Parisian writer who has had three children by as many lovers, she decides-now that her children wish to marry respectably-that she had better get married herself. The three fathers, after 20 years, are hence bidden to a house party...
...when he gave this account. The world was a rather large oyster for a lad without money to swallow, but Jed was the kind who would swallow it whole even if he choked. He splashed on the Marxist ketchup, and washed it all down with huge gulps of sex. Every night, after a furious day on the intellectual make, "he was in a hurry to go to sleep so that he would wake up and it would be tomorrow...
...ESCAPE OF SOCRATES, by Robert Pick (326 pp.; Knopf; $3.95). An arresting fictionalization, lightly laced with sex, of one of history's most famous trials. Unjustly condemned to drink the hemlock on the charge that he was impious and had corrupted the young, Socrates refuses to escape and save his skin, preferring to save his soul. Not nearly as perceptive an account as Plato's, of course, but full of lively local color (garlic-eating jurymen, the seductive street wiles of Athenian slave girls) and a sympathetic look at Socrates' much maligned wife, Xanthippe...