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Word: sexpot (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...doubt that we'll ever have a society in which women are treated as real people as long as women's bodies are used as sexpot images to sell products. This use is so prevalent that many of us are tired of taking the time to write letters and make phone calls every time we see a blatant example. For that reason I'm enormously grateful to Naomi F. Chase who made the time to complain about the poster to alumni and development officials...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Withdraw the Poster | 4/9/1979 | See Source »

...wading into the ocean in North Carolina and swimming to New York. Then that comes out in a magazine, and it becomes a permanent fact about you, when really it's just momentary." All of this becomes heavy to carry around, and so does the slightly frowzy sexpot image evoked by a couple of injudicious photos, notably a rumpy shot in Rolling Stone of Linda in a wrinkled red slip. "So now everyone thinks I'm a piece of cheese," she says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Linda Down the Wind | 2/28/1977 | See Source »

...overexposure to modern communication: "I'm now going into the lotus position." By the time a salesman arrives to make sure the falsies fit, Connie has gone Girl Scouting, but several other stock characters-including Muriel's former lover, the minuscule Sir Percy Shorter, and a mindless sexpot, Felicity Rumpers-have joined the seedy Wicksteed household for the game of "Who's got them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: False Premises | 12/8/1975 | See Source »

Thereafter, he became an enlightened monarch who seemed to want to repopulate the islands, as it were, singlehanded. (Estimated score: 21 wives, numerous concubines, more than 50 offspring.) His enduring love, his Guinevere, was Kaahumanu, a stout sexpot to whom he always returned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Polynesian Arthur | 3/18/1974 | See Source »

Helen, Queen of the Nautch Girls. a quasi-documentary short about an Indian queen of sexpot film stars. Sequinned and bare-bellied she dances a love-making literally evocative of the real thing. Harvard Square...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: the screen | 8/7/1973 | See Source »

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