Word: sexe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Recoveries. Kuru may strike as early as the age of four. Through childhood it strikes twice as many girls as boys. Among adults the sex ratio rockets to 14 to one: 56% of all patients are grown women. First sign of kuru is a slight trembling of the arms and legs on exertion. At this stage it subsides with rest. But a month to three months later the victim's head shakes, he begins to sway and stumble, and needs a walking stick for support. Within two months more, he is unable to stand or walk...
...Sunday papers with total circulation of more than five million. They reach their readers in editions published from teletype-linked plants in Berlin, Hamburg, Essen, Frankfurt and Munich. Springer also publishes five magazines (total circ. 4,680,000) that range from the weekly Das Neue Blatt, a sex-spiced gossip sheet, to Hör zu! (Listen!), a TV-radio weekly whose 2,600,000 sales top all other German magazines...
According to the French, "BB"-short for Brigitte Bardot-is going to replace MM as a symbol of sex. Brown-haired Brigitte, 23, is slender but softly rounded. From the neck up, though, she looks about twelve years old, and bears a striking resemblance to Shirley Temple at that age. Her movies have smashed attendance records from Norway to the Middle East, and Hollywood has bid high for her services. So far. Brigitte has preferred Paris, where she gets about 30 million francs (more than $70,000) for every picture...
...jealous, and the moviegoer curious-here comes that sheet again. She wraps it around her so that the husband can see what's inside and the audience can't. But by this time, the spectator, if he happens to be grownup, may not be looking anyway. If sex is the object, there is just about as much to be seen in almost any Hollywood film, and in promulgating Brigitte as a full-blown enchantress, the French have clearly sent a girl to do a woman...
...long time ago the editors of the Lampoon ruled out the exploitation of sex as a source of humor. In so doing, they finessed the happiest of human misadventures, and were faced with the problem of a substitute...