Word: taming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nameless actresses who play in such smokers a Hillbilly Heaven. She also seems to have a real feeling for hostile profanity, which is about as extreme her as one will find in a general-release movie. Oddly, when it comes to actions rather than words, the sex in tame, sometimes to the point of ab surdity. The most torrid encounter, a moaning simulation of cunnilingus, oc curs with both Portnoy and the Mon key fully clothed - she in pants...
...performing in Europe and Japan. If his New York audience is any indication, he will be a smash. What is his secret? At least some of it may be nothing more complicated than nostalgia. His once-lewd gyrations now seem almost suitable for Sunday school. "Man, I was tame compared to what they do now," he says. "I didn't do anything but just wiggle." To the top, that...
Familiar Backsides. Though the sex would be considered tame enough by TV audiences in some European countries, it is far more vivid than anything seen on home screens in America. The blonde playgirl in Apt. Six is usually glimpsed half nude, sometimes with nipples showing beneath a see-through blouse. A husband runs his hand under his wife's dress in one episode, and in another, one of the two homosexuals in Apt. Five walks on camera in bikini briefs. Full frontal nudity is out, but both female and male backsides are a familiar sight...
...targets are routinely Shavian -English justice, hypocrisy and prudery. The comic fall guys are Arab princes. The British exploited them for empire; Shaw does it for cheap and wilted laughs. The hero is an anti-Establishment mouthpiece, a humorless pirate chief (Pernell Roberts) too tame to make the chorus line in Gilbert and Sullivan...
Even by aristocratic standards, Jean de Berry's appetite for possessions was extreme. He liked animals; so his menagerie included 50 swans, a wolf, a camel, an ostrich, 1,500 mastiffs, and a number of tame bears which, lurching along in specially designed carts, followed the duke on his frequent moves between chàteaux. As with beasts, so with priests: "He maintained in his home," wrote one chronicler, "many chaplains who day and night sang the praises of God and celebrated Mass, and he took care to compliment them whenever the service lasted longer or was more elaborate...