Word: sexual
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...creator has become an anticreator and his greatest achievement is to discover how he can leave out some thing that has never been left out before," noted disenchanted Cultural Guardian Joseph Wood Krutch, 74, in the American Scholar. Take Twiggy, for example-"a fashion sensation because all the secondary sexual characteristics of the female were totally lacking." And the Twig is only part of the pattern, Krutch said. "The miniskirt is halfway to becoming a non-skirt. When it has reached its entelechy and is then designed to accompany a topless blouse, the anti-costume will be complete and just...
...naked doll, with a star in her navel, strumming a banjo-ukulele. Two naked gun molls accompany the raiders; as Colescott observes, "the Dillinger men took their girls with them wherever they went. I've tried to convey the feeling of the gang: very rowdy, very adolescent, very sexual...
...rivalry between a lusty, gusty bum called Wacholder, who wallows in a mountainous litter of crumpled papers and stacked cartons, and his neighbor Wurz. An obsessive-compulsive bacteriophobe, Wurz even dresses in a sterile white jump suit and dons a surgical mask and rubber gloves to have sexual intercourse with his masked, gloved wife...
Other accounts have been written of Strachey, author of Eminent Victorians, but all of them, says Rees, have omitted his sexual preference- an ardent, lifelong homosexuality. The 1,229-page, two-volume biography by Michael Holroyd is long enough-and honest enough-to include much of Strachey's hitherto unpublished correspondence with John Maynard Keynes, a contemporary of his at Cambridge. The letters consist mostly of outpourings of enthusiasm for comely young men, for whose favors Strachey and Keynes strenuously competed. "It was a kind of intricate ballet of the affections," writes Rees, "in which Keynes, ruthless, serpentine...
...sexual awakening of an adolescent movie star has long been a profitable screen attraction. Hayley Mills, who got her first screen kiss at the age of 18 in The Truth About Spring, lost her virginity to holy wedlock last year in The Family Way. In A Matter of Innocence, the baby fat is really in the fire: she takes a lover, without even being in love with...