Word: sexes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...leading man retains prominence without a strong and basic sex appeal. Wayne's has been uniquely conservative. "In a love scene, Clark Gable always forced the issue with a girl," observed Director Howard Hawks (Red River). "Wayne is better when the girl is forcing the issue." The romantic backlash has been operating for two generations on audiences?and on his female costars. Says Actress Vera Miles: "They used to say of the old West, 'Men were men and the women were grateful.' Well, that's how he makes you feel as a woman...
...Wayne stands to the right in sex, he is an unabashed reactionary in politics. A rapping Republican and flapping hawk, he has made the Viet Nam war his personal crusade. Yet his rigid, Old Guard style still wins salutes from the New Left...
...code, the result of a six-year study by a special commission of the Connecticut general assembly, reforms a number of antiquated Connecticut sex laws, some dating back to 1642. Accepting the commission's recommendation that all sexual activity be tween two consenting, mentally competent adults "is no business of the criminal law," the code eliminates adultery, homosexuality and lascivious car riage as punishable acts...
Ardent Lover. In most other states, sex laws are still so archaic they would make Hester Prynne feel at home. Sev en years ago, the American Law Institute proposed a Model Penal Code that would eliminate traditional penalties for sexual relations between consenting adults in private. Connecticut, and to a degree Illinois, have followed the rec ommendations. Montana, Oregon and others are considering similar action...
CRITICS AGREE that The Blue Angel (1930) is a classic, but usually for misleading reasons. They see it as a masterpiece of German Expressionism, detailing the complete degradation and ultimate death of a bourgeois hero through his descent into the sex-and-violence filled world of the lower classes. The allure of a cabaret singer (Marlene Dietrich) leads Professor Rat (Emil Jannings) from the comfortable, orderly existence and, to complete the Expressionist myth as practiced in German movies, subverts his normal conduct until he becomes an object of the townpeople's scorn. The economic theme in this plot, closely related...