Word: sexe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Another self-styled critic thinks that the painting looks like the work of someone in late puberty or early senility, probably the latter, as it shows "a deep knowledge of sex." "It is obviously obscene," he added...
...Hunger, thirst, and sex," said Schiller, "make the world go round...
Edging up to TV's responsibility toward children, the code argued that "crime, violence and sex are a part of the world they will be called upon to meet and a certain amount of proper presentation of such is helpful in orienting the child to his social surroundings." But it frowned on shows that are "excessively" violent or might cause "morbid" suspense...
...Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles have been crowding to see La Ronde, a French film that took prizes in three European film festivals. Like moviegoers in London, where the picture is flourishing in its sixth month, they seem to like what they see: an audacious, worldly-wise comedy of sex. In both U.S. cities, the film drew cheers from the critics-and not a murmur of protest from any guardian of the public morals. But last week wicked old New York, which almost always gets first crack at a foreign movie, had still not seen La Ronde, and could...
...piece, as any round should be, setting up a mocking harmony of desire and disillusion, vanity, pleasure and deceit. It is never prurient, smirking or pornographic. For all the intimacy of its nuances, the film's approach is dryly detached and completely charming; it spoofs sex rather than exploits it, much as Britain's satiric Kind Hearts and Coronets makes sport of murder...