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Word: skinflicks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Including F.W. Murnau's classic 1922 Nosferatu, the celebrated 1931 Dracula starring Bela Lugosi, Roman Polanski's 1967 black comedy The Fearless Vampire Killers or Pardon Me, But Your Teeth Are in My Neck, a 1970 skinflick called Does Dracula Suck? and the 1974 X-rated Andy Warhol's Dracula...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Is Dracula Really Dead? | 5/23/1977 | See Source »

...American Booksellers Association convention in Los Angeles said he preferred obscenity because it is more "forthright." In fact, "pornography is killing sex." Not too surprising remarks from an octogenarian, except that the speaker happened to be Henry Miller, the granddaddy of the erotic novel (Tropic of Cancer). Skinflick Star Linda Lovelace, a fellow author (at 22 she has already written her autobiography) disagreed: "Sex was dead and films like Deep Throat are bringing it back to life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 25, 1973 | 6/25/1973 | See Source »

...Dead. That ghoulish little saga of resurrected flesh-eaters stalking western Pennsylvania has been horrifying eager audiences at midnight shows for two years now; it even received a special screening at the Museum of Modern Art. Romero operates out of Pittsburgh, making his films on the cheap. Rather like Skinflick Impresario Russ Meyer, Romero edits his scenes into short blurts, which gives them a certain spurious energy. His scripts, which hover dangerously close to illiteracy, contain outrageously pedestrian dialogue, mostly shouted. ("Get Dr. Brookmyre a gas mask!") The plot of The Crazies is a graft off The Andromeda Strain, wherein...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Quick Cuts | 4/2/1973 | See Source »

...first main sequence Julius enters a room in which the cameras are filming Peter making it with another homosexual for a skinflick. As Julius (Chaikin) watches, we see him recoil. The grating voice of the man behind the camera tries to sell him: Come around again, it's not so bad, Love can't be bad, ch Julius? The man behind the camera promises to show Julius the film. You'll be in the movies, Julius, big... up on the screen. The movie is a prostituting medium and Julius r?i?cts it; he refuses to become an actor...

Author: By Timothy Carlson, | Title: Focus on America Who the Slayer and Who the Victim? | 3/23/1971 | See Source »

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