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the biography portrays the star as a dishonest and uncouth lecher
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Released on March 24, 1971, the conceptual song cycle of a poetic middle-aged lecher crashing his Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost and subsequently romancing the teenage Nelson, profoundly impacted everyone from Beck to Air, Portishead to Pulp.
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Washington Post, 19 Mar. 2021
The bawdy comic story lines are well-performed, most prominently by Brian Ibsen as the pompous lecher, Lucio.
—Philip Brandes, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2019
Initially, a number of people complained to Traubel’s mother that her son shouldn’t associate with such an old lecher, but Traubel volunteered to run errands for the increasingly infirm Whitman.
—Brenda Wineapple, The New York Review of Books, 18 Apr. 2019
Melnik was a mocker and an unbeliever, a lecher, a contrary creature.
—Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 30 Apr. 2018
All of a sudden women recoiled, the ethos tilted, and now the tumbrel is moving briskly through Hollywood, Silicon Valley, Capitol Hill, and beyond, carrying lechers, perverts, and boors into job-threatening disgrace.
—Alessandra Stanley, Town & Country, 3 Jan. 2018
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Washington Post, 19 Mar. 2021
The bawdy comic story lines are well-performed, most prominently by Brian Ibsen as the pompous lecher, Lucio.
—Philip Brandes, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2019
Initially, a number of people complained to Traubel’s mother that her son shouldn’t associate with such an old lecher, but Traubel volunteered to run errands for the increasingly infirm Whitman.
—Brenda Wineapple, The New York Review of Books, 18 Apr. 2019
Melnik was a mocker and an unbeliever, a lecher, a contrary creature.
—Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 30 Apr. 2018
All of a sudden women recoiled, the ethos tilted, and now the tumbrel is moving briskly through Hollywood, Silicon Valley, Capitol Hill, and beyond, carrying lechers, perverts, and boors into job-threatening disgrace.
—Alessandra Stanley, Town & Country, 3 Jan. 2018
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“Lecher.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lecher. Accessed 17 Dec. 2024.
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