Word: virginal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...overtones while Bradley grubs away in a tax inspector's office. Freedom is the cruel lure of Murdoch novels. Opting for early retirement, Brad ley believes his time of freedom, his time of inspiration, has come: "I can be a great writer now." But instead of solitude and virgin-white pages covered with copperplate writing, what awaits this cold, private, very fussy man is the sublime messiness of love...
...wise old Cuban peasant made everyone stop talking in a small circle of exiles. He asked: "Have you ever heard of a brothel where the madam was a virgin?" R. GARCÍA-BÁRCENA Washington...
...cliches need apply, however. She claims that her generation's sexual promiscuity, when it existed at all, resulted as much from the expectations of the adult world as it did from liberated libidos. Still a self-conscious virgin when she first arrived at Yale, she asked herself, "How has it happened, what have we come to, that the scarlet letter these days isn't Abut...
...DEVIL IN MISS JONES means to be taken seriously. The heroine just wants to be taken. The girl is Georgina Spevlin, portraying a suicidal virgin who finds herself in limbo, on her way to damnation. She talks Lucifer's regional vice president (John Clemens) into giving her a chance to wallow in lust be fore being whisked off to her fate. The film is all about her wallowing, rendered in vivid detail by Director Gerard Damiano, the man responsible for pornography's biggest-gross film, Deep Throat. Having titillated curious audiences and outraged the courts with his previous...
...most ballyhooed of the new arrivals is Robert Payne's pop biography, The Life and Death of Adolf Hitler. Farrar, Straus & Giroux has reissued Hitler's Secret Conversations ($19), the Führer's wartime table talk (from Volkswagens to the Virgin Birth) that all Hitler biographers have acknowledged as an invaluable source. Among the others, just published or to come, are books ranging from the thoughtful to the frivolous. Helmut von Moltke (St. Martin's Press; $16.95) introduces a Roman Catholic nobleman who triples as an international lawyer and anti-Hitler leader, and who, like...