Word: eroticizing
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The Cover: a three-dimensional illustration by Dennis Wheeler. The work is a fig leaf with a zipper, revealing two cast members of Oh! Calcutta!, the latest and most explicit example of theater in the nude. To Wheeler, the three elements-the leaf of Eden, the ubiquitous modern mechanism, the...
THE issue is as old as the fig leaf, as new as tomorrow's nude-theater opening. An erotic renaissance (or rot, as some would have it) is upon the land. Owing to a growing climate of permissiveness?and the Pill?Americans today have more sexual freedom than any previous...
...Calcutta! not only offers the most nudity but the handsomest nudes on the New York stage, trim-muscled men and lovely girls. Why does it fail to stimulate eroticism? The answer is that no member of a theater audience is unaware of the rest of the audience, and this communal group consciousness inhibits erotic response. If it gets a minus on eroticism, Oh! Calcutta! gets two plusses for the laughter it evokes and its rousing celebration of the body beautiful...
TV Clicks. A simple tale of simple souls demands a simple style. Accordingly, Herlihy's prose was like a pane of glass, with the described objects clearly in view. Director John Schlesinger sometimes seems less interested in Buck and Rizzo than in himself, covering his film with a haze...
The narrative is more pattern than plot. In a train compartment, a student named Hans (Erik Wedersoe) eyes a blonde dancer (Harriet Andersson) and dreams of his fiancee and his mistress. Suddenly, scenes of the train's pistons pounding are intercut. A title flashes "Could anything be more erotic...