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Word: sweeting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...third stories of schlock discount stores and greasy two-bit eating joints. These are places where much-used women dance with strange men for upwards of six dollars an hour. They are not very cheery places, but they nonetheless form the setting for the new musical film Sweet Charity...

Author: By Frank Rich, | Title: Sweet Charity | 2/15/1969 | See Source »

Charity Hope Valentine is a dance-hall hostess who just wants to be loved and Sweet Charity is the story of several of her unsuccessful attempts to fulfill this ambition. The adventures of the title character contain the sees of the piece's disparity of mood and locale...

Author: By Frank Rich, | Title: Sweet Charity | 2/15/1969 | See Source »

...Broadway script, Stone evidently had little desire to correct it. Bold action does not seem to be Stone's forté anyway, since most of the picture's jokes are holdovers from the Simon version and most of its charms traces back to Fellini's Nights of Cabiria (Sweet Charity's original source...

Author: By Frank Rich, | Title: Sweet Charity | 2/15/1969 | See Source »

There is something innocent, sweet, and perhaps inaccessible about Geoffrey Chaucer. He regarded sex as one of God's blessings. His devout and lusty pilgrims wending their garrulous way to Canterbury have an easy intimacy with natural odors, natural functions and the natural affections of men and women. The seamless unity of faith and flesh creates an abyss between the 14th century and the 20th. Chau cer's people are not paralyzed by self-consciousness in the act of love. They possess none of modern man's neurasthenic haste to import trouble in paradise. They export...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Plays: Pilgrims' Regress | 2/14/1969 | See Source »

...turned me on? what junkie pressed his packet, fixed me in his need until I moan for his sweet sake? You liar, love's a racket, at best only a connection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poetry: Combatting Society With Surrealism | 1/24/1969 | See Source »

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