Word: eroticism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Strange and condoned has been the existence of Architect Frank Lloyd Wright. Erotic and impulsive, he deserted his wife and six children to live with a Mrs. Mamah Bostwick Cheney and her two children, family of a Chicago businessman. For himself and them he built a splendidly original home on...
The Black Watch (Fox). One more of those English officers torn between love and patriotism goes back to his regiment on New Year's Eve a gentleman and a major. Victor McLaglen's inexperience as an interpreter of erotic reactions is made up for by Myrna Loy and by photography...
"Svacha takes off bridal veil and replaces it with kika (headdress of married woman). Father of bride gives away his daughter. Mother of bride leads her daughter to groom's parents. Father of bride strikes bride with whip (ancient ritual, symbol of submission) and then passes whip to groom...
Yet Baudelaire, in spite of arduous anc meticulous polishing, was not a skilful nor always successful prosodist, and his vocabulary was comparatively small. Gautier, his master, wrote better verse. Anc Joris Karl Huysmans, his disciple, was more artistically erotic.
Along with its faults, however, the "romance"--one hesitates to say operetta--has certain strong points. The voices of the main characters are with out exception remarkably good, and while the acting and directing leave much to be desired in the way of smoothness, the two leading ladies are a...