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Word: stuffs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...should be kept in mind, of course, that the well-lathered extremes of American porn are banned in France. Without knowledge of Deep Throat, Emmanuelle might seem like pretty hot stuff. This gives the film rather too much credit, however. Emmanuelle would have to go up against something like The Greatest Story Ever Told before it could begin to look titillating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Queen Klong | 1/6/1975 | See Source »

Swaggi offers no apologies. Says he: "The way I look at it, I'm a businessman. Sure I buy hot stuff ... but if I don't buy it, somebody else will." So the fence goes about his business, cunningly aware that good citizens and good thieves share a common goal: getting something for almost nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: The Sultan of Swag | 1/6/1975 | See Source »

Meticulous Revival. Tame stuff, until the audience realizes that this is a fantasy of wish fulfillment. The Millers are the family O'Neill would have preferred to those refugees from the House of Atreus with whom he was actually saddled. Throughout the play there are wood-notes of despair that provide a counterpoint, hinting that the Millers have within them the same talent for self-destruction as the Tyrones of O'Neill's autobiographical Long Day's Journey Into Night. With bad luck, comforting Mother Essie might become junkie Mary Tyrone; responsible Father Nat could turn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Sweet Dreams | 1/6/1975 | See Source »

...There may be some cause for this suspicion. Even its sup- porters admit that popular culture is not a well-understood discipline. One question on the final exam for the introduction-to-pop course this month asked, "How would you now explain to your parents what this popular-culture stuff is all about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Pop Cult 101 | 12/30/1974 | See Source »

...rebuke by vomiting all over her. When she leaves him, he adopts a seagull with a broken wing, nursing it back to health. This serves to demonstrate that there is a gentle nature lurking beneath all that calculated vulgarity. In any event, they are reunited. He allows her to stuff herself with candy the way he fed fish to the seagull, and in the end he watches her die horribly, her head shaven, her eyes bulging with fear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Sexual Retribution | 12/23/1974 | See Source »

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