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Word: vilenesses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...illusions about what he is up to: "Sex plus whiff of illegality . . . dirty ole man luring child into disused plate-layer's hut and plying her with wine-gums and dandelion-and-burdock to induce her to remove knickers and slake his vile lusts." Wife Kitty always knows when Sir Roy is off and rutting because each new affair is signaled by his stockpiling new undershorts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Butter on the Bow | 2/7/1972 | See Source »

Napoleon, like Jesus Christ, has always had vile luck with directors. It is often assumed that Hollywood has a monopoly on witless historical reconstructions. Of course it does not. The latest film to prove it is Eagle in a Cage, an account of the Little Corporal's exile on St. Helena...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Historical Stuffing | 1/31/1972 | See Source »

...dressed up like a vacuum cleaner who never talks but merely inhales. There is another guy who wears a nun's habit and is supposed to represent a groupie who has taken an overdose of barbiturates and ascends to Heaven. There is Jeff the bass player who drinks a vile foamy liquid, freaks out, steals his entire motel room, packs it in an empty beer bottle, and deserts the group in order to start a solo...

Author: By Andy Klein, | Title: 200 Motels | 11/2/1971 | See Source »

...zenith is a funeral staged con brio-the spectacular obsequies of a clown, his hearse drawn by men in horse suits, his widow a clown with pendulous breasts, the orator a grotesque who maligns the deceased (suffocated by an ostrich egg at the tender age of 200) as vile and worthless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Pierrots and Augustes | 6/21/1971 | See Source »

...this crisis of an old order affected the product enormously. Puritan scruples lost out to Puritan money, with lots of nipples and buttocks and, by 1970, pubic hair incorporated into vile and violent attempts to recapture brutalized audiences...

Author: By Michael Sragow, | Title: Politics and Films for Beginners | 6/17/1971 | See Source »

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