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Basho persuades Shogo's prime minister to go back with him to the deep North and enlist the aide of the "barbarians" in defeating Shogo and freeing the city. The barbarians turn out to be a British Commodore whose favorite saying is "ignorance is bliss," and his sister Georgina, a tambourine-waving soul saver. They all return to the South and a series of battles between Shogo's armies and the soldiers of the Commodore follow, with first one then the other side victorious, until finally Shogo is defeated and killed...

Author: By Susan Cooke, | Title: An Uneven Road | 12/17/1974 | See Source »

...performer is Georgina Spelvin, energetic heroine of The Devil in Miss Jones. The movie is a standard little immorality play about a shy girl running graphically amuck in her own hardcore, X-rated fantasies. At last count it had grossed more than $8 million. Spelvin was paid a mere $500 (about $33 per staged orgasm, by one attentive critic's calculation). After making the 1973 movie, she did other similar epics, and by last summer had fetched up in Maine doing straight summer-stock theater...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Jail for Pornographers? | 11/4/1974 | See Source »

...Georgina Duckey Field '69, a voter registration counselor at the Office of Graduate and Career Plans, said yesterday that inclusion in the street listing does not affect a student's taxes and automobile registration. "Students don't have to worry about those things until they come to register to vote," she said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Voting Rights Not Guaranteed By Inclusion in Street Listing | 5/22/1973 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Quick Cuts | 5/7/1973 | See Source »

...Died. Georgina Yeats, 75, widow of the Irish poet William Butler Yeats; of a heart attack; in Dublin. "How should I forget the wisdom that you brought/ The comfort that you made?" wrote Yeats in 1919, two years after his marriage to the witty, cultured English woman who was his confidante, and to some extent, muse. In 1963, nearly 30 years after his death, she gave Ireland's National Library a collection of his manuscripts that officials termed "one of the most munificent gifts since the founding of the state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Sep. 6, 1968 | 9/6/1968 | See Source »

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