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Word: sodomizes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...like it one bit. "What can twelve-to-14-year-olds do with that?" she asked a meeting of Washington's 20th Century Club. "We are denying them the whole knowledge of love and showing them only the animalistic characteristics. Why, when we know what happened to Sodom and Gomorrah, when we know what happened to the Roman Empire, do we believe that we can escape that kind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 24, 1972 | 1/24/1972 | See Source »

...Something more than God died in Broadway's Daliesque pastiche. Jesus Christ Superstar [Oct. 25]. With the last days of Christ acted with flashy vulgarity onstage, and the last days of Sodom and Gomorrah lived with frightening reality at the opening-night party. JC$ writes the R.I.P. on the tombstone of Western civilization. Like Superstar's hero, civilization has given up the ghost without any assurance of a resurrection on the third...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 15, 1971 | 11/15/1971 | See Source »

...Harper & Row; $6.95), is no exception. Spurning the popular pastime of condemning Los Angeles as an eyesore of shallow pretensions, Banham raises a rare intellectual voice in its favor. "Los Angeles does not get the attention it deserves," he writes. "It gets attention, but it's the attention Sodom and Gomorrah received, primarily a reflection of other peoples' bad consciences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Environment: Defending Los Angeles | 8/9/1971 | See Source »

...devotee of cheap Sodom-in-the-suburbs fiction can predict the finale. Walpurgisnacht occurs at a monumental bash thrown by your typical Fairfield County vulgarian. Crocked, randy, and desperate to get "the Lepridon account," Wilson beds down with the wife (Nancie Phillips) of a fellow commuter in the outside playhouse. Sure enough, a TV monitor, installed to oversee children at play, records the grope for the amusement of the guests and the despair of Mrs., mistress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Uneasy Rider | 3/23/1970 | See Source »

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