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Word: succubus (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more extreme the policy, the more inconsistent the practice. The Los Angeles Times occasionally refuses to run titles (such as Succubus, The Toilet) in ads for entertainment that it freely identifies in its reviews. Navels are airbrushed out of its film ads but are front and center on its fashion pages. The Times okayed an ad it had rejected as too violent after shotguns replaced machine guns in illustration. "Virgin" was barred from ad copy for Rachel, Rachel; it was approved for Goodbye, Columbus. As do some other papers, the Times has distributed a "screening code," but, says one studio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Censorship: Laundering the Sheets | 5/30/1969 | See Source »

...wickedness, Dutchman makes no more sense than any other noisy blurb for black reaction. But as a dramatic shocker, it hits even harder on the screen than it did on the stage. The camera picks the onlooker up, sits him down hard only two seats away from that subway succubus, and then forces him to sit there with his palms sweating while the danger builds and builds and builds like the brain-stabbing squeal of steel wheels in a turning tunnel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: From Stage to Screen: Murder, Madness & Mom | 3/3/1967 | See Source »

Lulu derives from the legendary folklore of the succubus, a female demon who was thought to have intercourse with sleeping men. Lulu destroys men wholesale. Early in Act I, Lulu's aging husband surprises her in the arms of an artist and would-be lover (Stanley Kolk), and dies of a heart attack. She marries the artist, but he, in turn, commits suicide when he discovers that Lulu is still in love with Schon, an abusive former lover. Schon tries to escape the Lulu hex with another woman, but Lulu later shoots him to death. And the round...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Opera: The Hellish Drive | 8/16/1963 | See Source »

...girl came to live with them and eventually caught Sartre's attention. The odd menage a trots that resulted drove Simone frantic and offended their friends-not because it was irregular, but because they couldn't see what Sartre saw in the girl. Finally, to exorcise this succubus, Simone wrote her first successful novel, L'Invitee, which told how a young woman moved in on a sympathetic couple and so demoralized them that the wife eventually murdered her. Of this denouement. Authoress de Beauvoir says: "By killing Olga on paper I purged every twinge of resentment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Elves | 6/1/1962 | See Source »

Terrible-eyed, a father rose up from his coffin one night last week, rushed after his beautiful young daughter and with bloodthirsty screams attempted to sink his fangs into her throat. Poor stiff. Some other vampire, succubus, lamia, boggart, barghest, uturuncu or related fee-faw-fum had already drunk the poor girl dry. The U.S., as summer moviegoers may have observed, is crawling with the bloody things. The horror industry is in the hideous throes of what may be the biggest necromantic revival since Count Dracula was a nipper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Blood Pudding | 9/1/1961 | See Source »

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