Word: sexualize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...successor to Calcutta. Somewhat coyly called Carte Blanche and co-produced by Hillard Elkins, Tynan's Calcutta confrere, the project was not without risk. As Elkins noted: "Calcutta was easier in a way because nothing like it had been done before. Now we are competing with other sexual shows and films." Or, to put it in terms that Gypsy Rose Lee would understand: After you take it all off, what do you do for an encore...
...CALLED New Sexual Permissiveness that arrived with the sixties provided many a self-doubting husband with a convenient, if cowardly, back exit out of marriage. In the name of "doing his own thing," and mostly because everyone else was doing it, a man could demand either divorce or separation (offering to pay alimony and child support, of course) and persuade himself that in the liberated bosom of the new society he would act out his existential errands where his embittered father had been forced to drown that restlessness in work and drink...
...implausible linkage of Jimmy Carter to lechery stemmed from some afterthought views on sexual mores that the candidate expressed in a wide-ranging interview that will appear in the November Playboy. The result of five hours of interviews given over a three-month period to Writer Robert Scheer, the Playboy article quotes Carter on such substantive topics as U.S. intervention in foreign countries, multinational corporations and the Mayaguez incident. But none of these created a stir...
...story at the same time as NBC, but editors held it because, as one said, "People might accuse us of trying to manipulate the campaign." When the story finally did run, the paper found all the "screws" unfit to print, reporting only that Carter had "used a vulgarism for sexual relations." That tasteful ambiguity led many readers to wonder whether Carter had employed an even worse vulgarism, and the Times next day was more specific: "a common but mild vulgarism for sexual intercourse." Explained Managing Editor A.M. Rosenthal: "It was simply a matter of taste and style, our taste...
...aware that the arrival of the federal reviewers offered us a unique opportunity to bring our case to the national public and put the spotlight on the U.S. government for, not only its non-enforcement of Affirmative Action, but also its tacit and active support for national, racial and sexual discrimination, particularly as evidenced at Harvard...