Word: sexualize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Unfounded rumors that Somerville Mayor S. Lester Ralph was arrested for sexual assault have persisted as a result of an organized campaign to discredit the mayor, John Kerry, assistant district attorney of Middlesex County, said in a press release issued Tuesday...
...surprising that he mustered the wisdom to pick Diane Keaton as his star. In the role of Theresa Dunn, a Catholic schoolteacher who cruises singles bars at night, Keaton is everything the rest of this movie is not: provocative, affecting, scary. She creates a heroine who is at once sexual aggressor and victim, lady and tramp, and she relentlessly savages most pat notions about the nature of womanhood. It is a spectacularly daring performance whose meaning sadly eludes this film...
Medicine. Through its myriad glands-and the hormones they secrete into the bloodstream-the endocrine system acts as a kind of bodily Mission Control, regulating a variety of functions, from growth to sexual activity. The three winners of the prize in physiology or medicine helped unravel the mysteries of that system-and pointed to dramatic new ways of controlling it when it goes awry...
...used to indicate the large feminine component in Strindberg's nature of which he was fully aware and which he wished to exorcise through a bludgeoning masculinity. In one scene, Strindberg asserts his potency in a comically insecure way, descanting on the length and girth of his sexual member in inches-not in millimeters, oddly enough...
Regrettably, the director largely abandons the altruistic thread in the narrative as he increasingly dwells on Dunn's plunge into the hedonist ethic. The repeated humiliation accorded Theresa by her handsome sexual swordsman (Richard Gere) is designed to serve as a counterpoint to the unrequited love showered on her by the enraptured James Morrissey (William Atherton), but the novelty of the contrast quickly wears off as the subjugation of Theresa becomes progressively uglier. She throws herself into cocaine-sniffing, prostituting herself for the thrill of the act, and blowing off Morrissey out of sheer spite. The schoolteacher identity is tossed...