Word: sexuality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cheerful Brazilian comedy-based on a novel by Jorge Amado-that depends for its effect on two social elements that would seldom be found together in a Hollywood or even European movie. One is enough permissiveness to allow the filming of nude actors going vigorously through the motions of sexual intercourse. The other that there is enough strictness and propriety so that the niceties of marital faithfulness and the awful pratfall of cuckoldry matter a great deal...
...lovers move easily into a strong sexual friendship. But they are secretive because they have many mutual friends, and neither wants to endure the loss of privacy or the rituals of side taking that would follow full disclosure. Before propriety degenerates to absurdity, David and Elizabeth spend a glorious week together in a cottage in the English countryside. For that week they live happily ever after; then absurdity, in the persons of their respective exes, again obtrudes...
...described as frivolous. Among recipients of such largesse is Sociologist Pierre van den Berghe of the University of Washington, who used part of a $97,000 grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to underwrite a report by his researcher, George Primov, titled, "The Peruvian Brothel as Sexual Dispensary and Social Arena...
...death for fornication. But Claudio, the accused, has been living unmarried with his loving, contracted fiance only until her dowry can be arranged. Their union needs no financial guarantee. Measure is not for Measure in Angelo's sentence; the penalty does not fit the crime. Every sexual union is a form of prostitution in this play until what could be called the happy ending, when four legitimate betrothals are made between appropriate partners...
...introduced, are left dangling. The 19th century setting is as much an imposition and as little a genuine idea as the nickelodeon. Part of the problem is Jennifer Marre's interpretation of Isabella. If only it had been a little less inexplicable, more seemingly affected by the thought of sexual violation or even by the threat of her brother's execution. Isabella is not necessarily selfishly chaste; especially in the setting of this production, Marre might have been directed to make evident that it is a different sort of martyrdom to consent to rape than to whipping. Marre does...