Word: sexualism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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REPULSION. This classic chiller by Writer-Director Roman Polanski (Knife in the Water) gathers images of horror from the shattered psyche of a lissome French manicurist (Catherine Deneuve) whose sexual fantasies drive her to murder...
What group gave its approval to films dealing with such touchy themes as unwed pregnancy (The L-Shaped Room), sexual fetishism (The Collector), infidelity (Juliet of the Spirits), and the emptiness of Jet Set life (Darling)! The answer: that stern old guardian of movie morals, the Roman Catholic National Legion of Decency. Despite its reputation as a censorious successor to Comstock, the Legion has lately changed into a surprisingly sophisticated appraiser of adult films; it is even dropping its rather arrogant and muscular name...
Sands of the Kalahari. A hired plane crashes and burns in the wastes of South-West Africa. Out of the flaming wreckage crawl six survivors: five men and a woman. Their plight unknown, they face an ordeal by sun, sand, hunger, thirst and, as it turns out, sexual desire. Who will live? Who will die? Who will prove his strength, or weakness? And who will get the girl...
...happened on a BBC panel show, aired well past prime time, where the question of sexual explicitness in the theater was under discussion. With bland insouciance, the moderator asked: "Would you go so far as to allow a play to be put on at the National Theater in which sexual intercourse took place on the stage?" Tynan took a deep breath, peered soberly into the camera, and said: "Certainly." Then, using the most familiar English four-letter colloquialism for the act of love, he allowed that there are "very few rational people in this world to whom the word...
...This is a homosexual bar, Jesus. It looks like any other bar on the outside, only it isn't. Men stand three and four deep at this bar-some just feeling a sense of belonging here, others making contacts for new sexual partners. This isn't very much like a church, Lord, but many members of the church are also here in this bar. Quite a few of the men here belong to the church as well as to this bar. If they knew how, a number of them would ask you to be with them in both...