Word: sexe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...addition to athletics, editing the college literary magazine, and being class president, McCord also developed his interest in criminality while at Stanford. "I took a job at San Quentin as a psychologist for sex offenders. Nobody else wanted to handle them so there were no qualifications. In fact this was not even my major in college; I majored in history and humanities." While working at San Quentin he counseled a man who had written the TV and radio show Dragnet until he was arrested for forging a $50,000 check...
...Tribune, and one of his early assignments was to interview the madam of a house of prostitution. "Always self-conscious and usually uncomfortable in the presence of all but his closest women friends," writes Thurber, "the young reporter began by saying to the bad woman (he divided the other sex into good and bad), 'How many fallen women do you have...
...relics. All that remained, buried at the rear of the grave niche, were a few bones. The Vatican has said only that they are human, that there is no skull among them, and that they are those of a powerfully built person of advanced age but undetermined sex. With this intriguing information −pending further Vatican disclosures about the bones or about additional excavation −the account ends. Archaeologists Toynbee and Perkins conclude only that "at least since the 2nd century, the belief [that St. Peter's bones lay in the Aedicula] has been, and always will...
...before, Author Sagan, 22, is principally preoccupied with sex. But where in her earlier books sex was at least intermittently pleasant, it now seems to have become a wearisome compulsion to be borne like kleptomania or a facial tic. And where characters used to get involved with each other in reasonably manageable triangles and quadrangles, in this book Author Sagan's sexual geometry clearly has got out of hand. The pack of people who meet at the home of Alain Maligrasse, an editor in a Paris publishing firm, have one common denominator: they are in love with people...
...film's completion, one cannot help but feel that the story was largely a vehicle for sex, and certainly every character, in his or her own way, fairly radiates sex appeal. Each actor does his job well, but each one, regrettably, does it too often...