Word: wenches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Richardson (The Entertainer, A Taste of Honey) has made the novel into an absolutely magnificent movie. The film is a way-out, walleyed, wonderful exercise in cinema. It is also a social satire written in blood with a broadaxe. It is bawdy as the British were bawdy when a wench had to wear five petticoats to barricade her virtue. It is as beautiful in Eastman Color as England is in spring. And it is one of the funniest farces anybody anywhere has splattered on a screen since Hollywood lost the recipe for custard...
None of Pegler's legion of enemies turned out to be thornier than Correspondent Quentin Reynolds. After Pegler attacked Reynolds in print for "nuding along [with] a wench" and cowardice. Reynolds sued. In court in 1954, Reynolds' attorney, Louis Nizer, forced Pegler to admit that 130 statements he had made about Reynolds were untrue, and Reynolds was awarded $175,001. After that, the list of newspapers that carried Pegler gradually dropped from more than 200 to 140, and the columnist was tamed by heavy editing from Hearst...
...father, served in the Virginia House of Burgesses. Bill II built Westover, an elegant Georgian mansion with a fine library. He also founded the city of Richmond-but he remains best remembered for his spicy diaries. Sample entries: "I went to the capitol where I sent for the wench to clean my room and I kissed her, for which God forgive me." "I had wicked inclinations to Mistress Sarah Taylor." "When I returned I had a great quarrel with my wife, in which she was to blame altogether; however. I made the first step to a reconciliation...
...Film Polski; Telepix) is a beautiful, full-bodied young woman possessed by eight demons. Almost proudly, she rattles off their names-Balaam, Isacaaron, Behemoth, Gressil, Dog's Tail, Amon, Leviathan, and Asmodeus, demon of lust. Asmodeus, of course, possesses many women. But Joan (Lucyna Winnicka) is no common wench: she is the mother superior in a Roman Catholic convent of Ursuline nuns...
Lieut. Bandy learns about liquor when he is sent off on a trench raid with a canteen filled with rum: magnificently drunk, he loses his bearings, raids his own trench, and kidnaps his colonel. Bandy needs all of his Christian resolve to avoid being seduced by a pillow-breasted wench: "She clutched her arms around my head, burying my face even deeper in her bosom until my nose was bent almost double against her sternum and her nipples were stuck in my earholes like a stethoscope...