Word: sexe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though the show has its own pseudo-scientific lingo and its own slang ("Shootin' rockets!" "What in the universe!"), Moser borrows from older art forms. "Like any cowboy hero, Buzz Corry is above sex," he explains. "He never kisses anything but the cold nose of his space ship." Moser has also put a taboo on cliff-hanging ("If we cause a single nightmare we have failed in our purpose")-Should a program end with Commander Corry facing a ray gun and certain death, the TV camera moves in to show a faint smile on the hero's face...
...Billing. What lifts the film above the commonplace is its star, Marilyn Monroe, who is an inexpert actress but a talented woman. She is a saucy, hip-swinging 5 ft. 5½-in. personality who has brought back to the movies the kind of unbridled sex appeal that has been missing since the days of Clara Bow and Jean Harlow. The trademarks of Marilyn's blonde allure (Rust 37 in., hips 37 in., waist 24 in.) are her moist, half-closed eyes and moist, half-opened mouth. She is a movie pressagent's dream...
...Weaker Sex. In London, the National Vigilance Association disbanded its patrols designed to protect young women from strangers in railroad stations, solemnly announced: ''Today it's the young men who need protecting and looking after...
...separate corporation. He picked it up when it was floundering with a circulation of only 84,000, built it up until it rivals the London Times in prestige, dwarfs it in circulation (970,900 v. 233,091). Sharply edited and crisply written, the Telegraph is as free of sex and sensation as the court circular, shows Camrose's liking for the unadorned fact. The Telegraph is not given to causes or crusades; it is staunchly but independently Conservative, whereas the Times in the past has supported the government even when it promoted socialism and appeasement...
...Neill stretches them taut with manias -Hogan's is for money, Josie's for sex, Jim's for liquor-then lets them slack with remorse. Hogan tells Josie that their landlord is going to sell the farm out from under them, and makes her agree to a shotgun plot: she will get Jim drunk, lure him to bed, and keep him there till her father appears with witnesses. Josie reneges on the scheme when she finds 1) that her father has lied about the farm, 2) that in Jim's life there is room for only...