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...conclusion, both Jonathan and Sandy have become fatuous travesties of the American male, a creature, the film implies, who loathes the apposite sex. Sandy is a superannuated swinger, complete with stash, burns and a 17-year-old hippie on his arm. Jonathan is even more pathetic. In the final semi-surrealistic scene, he lies on his back awaiting the ministrations of a prostitute (Rita Moreno). As she sinks slowly, agonizingly slowly, to her knees she recites a ritual of masculine domination: "You have ... an inner power so great that every act, no matter what, is more proof of that power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Spiritual Disease | 7/5/1971 | See Source »

...Pleasant Valley Country Club did see some sights never seen on the men's tour: golfers in shocking-pink culottes and checkered hot pants, bouquets of pansies serving as tee markers, club covers knitted in the shape of Teddy bears. As for golf, President Whitworth was the biggest swinger of all. Three-putting only three greens in 72 holes, she won her second L.P.G.A. championship by a commanding four-stroke margin. The $7,950 payoff boosted her 1971 winnings to $26,825, tops on the tour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Whoopee for the Proettes | 6/28/1971 | See Source »

...mistress. His holiday goal at a friend's villa near St.-Tropez, he announces, is "to do and to be absolutely nothing." Unfortunately for his purposes, the villa is already occupied by a painter friend and by Haydee (Haydée Politoff), a pouty, bikini-clad young swinger who collects men much the way Adrien gathers antiquities. Her affairs with the painter and a wealthy American art fancier gradually arouse Adrien's own confused feelings of jealousy and lust. Amused by the thought of a new conquest, Haydee consents to sleep with him. But in a final spasm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Low-Keyed But Audible | 5/17/1971 | See Source »

Harold Prince was their schoolmate. Retired from Broadway for eight years, she was persuaded to stop playing grandmother and start playing Follies' superannuated swinger. "I don't think Ziegfeld had as many beautiful girls as we have in Prince's show," she says. "Of course, in Ziegfeld's time the girls were rounder. The men then liked a little more hip and a little more breast ?thin at the waist, though...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Once and Future Follies | 5/3/1971 | See Source »

Taboo Terms. In bed the action is mostly conventional: "When a swinger becomes unusually venturesome," Bartell says, "the chances are that he will not find a cooperative partner." Still, vibrators are not uncommon, and homosexual behavior between the women is almost routine. Explains Bartell: "It turns men on to watch women together, and it conserves their own sexual energy." Sexual relations between the men is rare, however, and is considered bad form. Also taboo: terms of endearment between sexual partners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: The American Way Of Swinging | 2/8/1971 | See Source »

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