Word: sexe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...truly brilliant production to make something satisfactory out of The Adventures of King Pausole. Albert Willemetz's libretto, based on a novel by Pierre Louys, is an incoherent and frequently boring farce, moving from one extended gag to the next within a ridiculous plot. The pre-occupation with sex makes even the usual Hasty Pudding obsession seem mild, while the amours of various hermaphroditic characters is embarrassingly unfunny. The play's tasteless broadness clashes incongruously with Arthur Honegger's witty and sophisticated score which is its only saving grace...
...statistics imply. "What we're really bickering about is a few intelligence points which don't really make much difference," Thomas F. Pettigrew, Assistant Professor of Social Psychology, points out. Almost all students at the two colleges are on the same high plane of scholastic ability, and each sex seems to have a particular arete in some field...
Billy Wilder, the producer, director, and co-author of the script, probably took some sort of commercial chance when he chose a transvestite setting for his sex spoof. Except for occasional shifting of buttocks, however, the usually queasy Boston audience has little trouble transcending its sidewalk morality-so broad is the funny business, so obvious the references...
Mountolive, by Lawrence Durrell. Politics mixes with sex and sadness in the third febrile novel (others: Justine, Balthazar) of a projected quartet about prewar Egypt...
...Trains, The Side of the Angels) again and again pierces his story with small but sharply accurate insights-how a man feels when he pointlessly watches a girl on the street, the horribly impersonal service in a funeral parlor almost too antiseptic to admit the image, "dust to dust." Sex itself ends in the kind of disgust that makes both the scene and the act seem like an aspect of earned punishment...