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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...three principal characters (William Holden and Ernest Borgnine on one side, Robert Ryan heading the group out to stop them) are something of an exception to this. They seem to have more of ideal of what they are doing than the rest do, and Peckinpah shoots Holden and Borgnine in two-shot and has Ryan made up to look like Holden. They alone fight for dominance of the frame once the battle has begun, but they too are overcome once the battles get fully underway...

Author: By Terry CURTIS Fox, | Title: Grit | 7/15/1969 | See Source »

Words also tend to be devalued by the new erotica. Three centuries or so ago, William Shakespeare or John Donne could convey passion, poetry, disgust and concupiscence in words with artful undermeanings that shocked none. Nowadays, a few greatly gifted writers can effectively employ the familiar quad-riliterals for dramatic or comic effect, but they tend to lose their value through overuse. As George Orwell observed 22 years ago, "If only our half-dozen 'bad' words could be got off the lavatory wall and onto the printed page, they would soon lose their magical quality." That process is well under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Sex as a Spectator Sport | 7/11/1969 | See Source »

...interview with TIME Reporter Jill Krementz. To explore the views of the other America, TIME gathered eight experts for an afternoon's discussion. The eight: Wynn Chamberlain, paint er and producer-director of erotic films; Maurice Girodias, founder-editor of the Olympia Press, which published J. P. Donleavy, William Burroughs, and Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita; Sally Kirkland, actress in several erotic and/or nude plays; Jacques Levy, director of Oh! Calcutta!, America Hurrah and Scuba Duba; Charles Rembar, the attorney who successfully defended Lady Chatterley's Lover, Fanny Hill and Tropic of Cancer against obscenity charges; Terry Southern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Conversations on the New Eroticism | 7/11/1969 | See Source »

...William Esty Co. created Noxzema shave cream's famous TV ad, in which Gunilla Knutson whispers "Take it off, take it all off." Soon after that caught on, Young & Rubicam hired an actress with a throaty voice, just like Gunilla's, to implore, "Put it on, put it all on" -an appeal for customers to buy Plymouths and load them with all manner of optional equipment. Eagle Shirtmakers' color-naming contest of five years ago-in which the winning entries included Foreseeable Fuchsia, God's Little Ochre and Hot Chestnut-was revived this spring by Young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Advertising: The Copycats | 7/11/1969 | See Source »

Nobody seems to be mad about the copycatting. The writer of the Noxzema ad, John Blumenthal of William Esty, says: "Just think, every time people hear that girl saying 'Put it all on,' they will remember the Noxzema girl saying Take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Advertising: The Copycats | 7/11/1969 | See Source »

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