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Word: sexed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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LAKE PLACID, N.Y. Playhouse. The characters in the four droll and sometimes touching playlets of Robert Anderson's You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running share a universal preoccupation, sex, as it is used in art, as it wanes in middle age, as it bemuses parents of adolescent children, and as a fading memory of the very...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Jul. 25, 1969 | 7/25/1969 | See Source »

...right, let's admit sex is great [July 11]! But when it hits you in the eye with belted monotony on the screen, in books, on the stage under the pretentious guise of the "new morality" (i.e., dressed-up smut) I find it quite tiresome. There's nothing funnier than a good dirty joke, and nothing flatter than a poor one. Seems to me, the plethora of poor ones going the rounds these days is all one hears. Who's laughing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 25, 1969 | 7/25/1969 | See Source »

...healthy that the subject of sex is now in the open. How sad that the sex act is no longer a private affair between two people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 25, 1969 | 7/25/1969 | See Source »

...Evangelist Billy Graham's chronicle of his descent into that 42nd Street pornographic Hades was very enlightening. I have always suspected that the Rev. Graham's interest in sex, as he says, ceased at 20; he has always struck me as such a clinically pure young man. And his mother raised him so correctly: I agree wholeheartedly that love can only exist "within the confines of marriage," as Graham says. I adore his word choice. Confine is such a good word. And his logic is still unsurpassed. Everyone knows that Adam and Eve's "rebellion against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 25, 1969 | 7/25/1969 | See Source »

Confident that it would not detract from her wonderwoman image, Raquel Welch prepared for her most ambitious role-as Myra Breckinridge, the man who changed his sex to turn temptress, in 20th Century-Fox's version of Gore Vidal's novel. At the announcement press conference, Producer Robert Fryer (The Boston Strangler, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie) said that to the best of his knowledge only Miss Welch and eight transvestites had tested for the role. "It's a great step forward in my career," said Raquel. "But what will Laugh-In say?" Nothing uncomplimentary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 25, 1969 | 7/25/1969 | See Source »

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