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Word: sexe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...West, 61, a latter-day blonde with original curves, made her night-club debut in the Sahara, a Las Vegas saloon, and proved that "my brand of sex" is still a basic barroom commodity. Mae's brand consisted of herself and "the first barechest act for lady customers in history"-eight muscle-bound young men in loin-cloutish Bikinis, one of them the current "Mr. America," the rest onetime contenders for the title. All in all, Mae's troupe proved invigorating even for jaded

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 9, 1954 | 8/9/1954 | See Source »

...changes in the individual's body and in his relationship to the outside world. "The individual beginning his second half-century of living is concerned about the possibility of losing himself sexually and vocationally." Centenarians, having "navigated" this period successfully, keep not only an interest in sex but also their potency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: How to Live to 100 | 8/2/1954 | See Source »

...Hitchcock's principal agent in creating suspense out of casual incident. Actress Kelly, a Hitchcock worker in Dial M for Murder and now working in his next picture, plays the career girl with a subtle junior-executive swagger, a good deal of wit, and a sort of U.H.F. sex that not everybody will be able to hear. As for Thelma Ritter, who plays a visiting nurse, she is probably the only actress alive who can stick a thermometer in a man's mouth and say, without a hint of affectation: "See if you can break a hundred...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Aug. 2, 1954 | 8/2/1954 | See Source »

...motel, but when the fellow died at the hospital, Archer had no intention of calling it quits. Almost before Tony Aquista's body had cooled, the detective was poking into as sordid a mess as hardened mystery addicts could reasonably ask for. Macdonald's blend of sex and sadism includes marijuana, incest and adultery. That the mixture stops well this side of disgust is a tribute to his nice sense of realism, an adult way of conveying that life is sometimes like this, but no need to leer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Reasonable Facsimile | 7/26/1954 | See Source »

...Nauseam Hollywood has found that the best way to get the entertainment seeker away from the TV set, short of turning out better films, is to go after him in advertising copy-bombard him with sex, pound him with superlatives and stab him with exclamation points...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Ad Nauseam | 7/19/1954 | See Source »

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