Word: sexes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This earnestness in the face of farce is of a piece with Updike's general reverence toward sex. His contemporaries invade the ground with wild Dionysian yelps, mocking both the taboos that would make it forbidden and the lust that drives men to it. Updike can be honest about it, and his descriptions of the sight, taste and texture of women's bodies can be perfect little madrigals...
Above and behind his reverence which extends to oral encounters between Piet and Foxy-looms Updike's central metaphor. He finds in sex an expression of his own Piet-like quest to recapture the past. Nostalgia suffuses him, goads him, at times frightens him. At home, in Ipswich, Mass., Updike spends hours leafing through boyhood photograph albums. "I find old photographs powerful," he says. "There's a funny thing about the way the flux of time was halted at this particular spot. You just can't get back...
...which she has been seduced almost as often as Bardot. She is also France's fastest-rising female star, and is currently on view in the U.S. in three thoroughly dissimilar films. Benjamin is a frivolous froth of a costume piece, dedicated to the proposition that upper-class sex in 18th century France was frisky, witty, pretty and piquant. The Young Girls of Roche fort, a disappointing follow-up to Jacques Demy's ethereal The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, is a treacly dollop of banality. But Belle de Jour is Bufiuel...
...alcoholic; he has claimed that this-his 27th picture-will be his last. True or not, Belle de Jour is a fitting capstone to the curious career of an unpopular but near-legendary film maker whose favorite themes have been anticlericalism, madness, fetishist fantasies and the wilder frontiers of sex. The Belle of this story is the masochistic wife of a successful young Parisian doctor who finds relief from her marital frigidity by working part-time in a whorehouse-not for conventional kicks but for the delicious indignities involved. Since other directors have long since surpassed Bufiuel when it comes...
...fact that "illegitimate births in the U.S. have tripled in the past 25 years." Partly to blame are "college officials who, by allowing men and women to visit each other in dorms, have encouraged intimacy both on and off campus, and 'are actually giving tacit consent to premarital sex.' . . . But Blaine saw brighter prospects ahead. He reported on a poll of Harvard undergraduates, most of whom indicated that they hope their future children will live by a stricter moral code than they have...