Word: sexe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...onetime secretary-companion and maid to Tallulah Bankhead, was charged with stealing more than $4,000 from her former employer by raising and forging checks. The money was used, cried the defendant's lawyer, to buy things for Miss Bankhead-"Cocaine, marijuana, liquor, booze, whisky, champagne and sex." Retorted outraged lava-voiced Tallulah: "Of course I drink. But nobody has to kite checks to pay for my liquor." As for dope: "Even if I had been getting it-which I certainly wasn't-do you think I'd have been paying for it by check?" But what...
...elaborate joke that makes the wheels go round in Philip Wylie's new novel is that there are no longer any men left in the world (as the women see it) and no more women left in the world (as the men see it). For each sex the other has suddenly disappeared, and the men & women of a world that somehow manages to be simultaneously manless and womanless are faced for the first time with the problem of how to live without each other...
...little too late to reflect that "a 'person' is a-man-plus-a-woman; with one or the other absent, there is no person." When Gaunt sees his sex-starved fellow men queueing up for the Miss America Doll (including choice of permeating perfumes), it seems to him that "she" is precisely the "mechanical lust-putty" that they have been hankering after all along-an erotic object chosen solely according to "criteria of eye and ear and nose and touch," devoid of all "personality . . . mind . . . ideas or a soul." It is inevitable, Gaunt thinks, that this lascivious dummy...
...though the women pine for their men at first, their mood soon turns to resentment of the sex that has never let them learn to use all of their minds and muscles. Left to their own devices, driven by necessity out of bargain basements and beauty parlors into machine shops and power stations, the abandoned women of America make a far more courageous and intelligent showing than do their abandoned...
...secondary to Marlene Dietrich. It is her performance that gives the film its character and that marks it as extraordinary. In this film as in no other is the spirit of Dietrich crystallized. She is the epitome of the hard beiled cabaret queen. There is a constant implication of sex which would still be felt even if she had all her clothes...