Word: sexe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...comedy went on, in Pennsylvania's swank-rustic Bucks County Playhouse last week, "T. C." handled hip and handbag so well that the audience rapidly forgot his real sex. "Jones is so good that we completely forgot he was a man," said one actor after the show. "When he leaned over after one rehearsal and kissed his wife, we were all shocked." Mrs. Connie Dickson Jones herself is long past such shock. Onetime actress (she once toured the South in a tent show of Ten Nights in a Barroom) and athlete (she was once women's fencing champion...
Author De Vries has rationed his wordplay in Tents and cut down on the puns and epigrams. Samples: "persona non Groton," "the Symbol Simons of literature," "What is chastity but an overemphasis on sex?" In Tents, the literary parodies are the thing, and some of them are hilariously...
...chameleon, when blinded, loses the power of changing color; when refused sex, the male dies of disappointment...
Room at the Top (at the Kenmore). Perhaps the best British film since Guinness and Hawkins teamed up in The Prisoner, this is a deeply penetrating and significant study of English sex and society, with some of the frankest dialogue ever to come across the screen. Won award for "best performance by an actress" (Simone Signoret) at Cannes; named "best picture of the year, 1959" by the British Film Academy...
...finished and turned again to the group, I observed the young men had casually grouped themselves on one side of the room, and the young ladies on the other side. I stood with the males. Feeling a little odd, I crossed the floor to be with the weaker sex.) Only two young women were seated. When the one nearest me perceived I was standing, she instinctively arose and tendered her seat to one older than she. Now, in a period when the elders are claiming that respect and consideration for older persons is a lost art in college youth...