Word: tangoes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Clockwork Orange, but sado-masochism in all its ugly forms. Any work of art, or scene within one, which depicts violence as stimulating, or sex as in its essence violent and exploitive, should be suppressed. If the many reviews and plot descriptions I have read are accurate, The Last Tango in Paris fits this latter category in its entirety. Its systematic degradation of the female sex, its depiction of sex as pure violence, and its final scene of sexually motivated murder by the degraded girl, represent the kind of chemistry society can do without. If by suppressing this film...
Honolulu Sir / To make sure that I was thoroughly disgusted with your coverage of Last Tango, I read it very carefully word by word -twice...
...read the letters responding to your story about Last Tango and was astounded. I read your article and saw nothing lewd or obscene in it, nothing that isn't talked about in our elementary school...
...disgusted (though not shocked) by the response to your article on Marlon Brando and Last Tango...
...husband and I saw Tango and we found the film to be extremely moving, with innumerable thought-provoking complexities (not necessarily sexual...