So, again, when considering the lecherous behaviour of disc jockeys and other pop celebrities in the past, we need to remember the cultural framework within which it happened.

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Hot older women have never gone out of lecherous style.

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Arthur made the adjustment, and Hytner stepped away from his chair against the back wall to watch Jodi Prenger, as the cheeky, high-heeled Dolly, encounter Francis and his lecherous glances.

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With the film critic Glenn Kenny in an amusing turn as a lecherous guy who grades escort services on the Web, and the writer Mark Jacobson as a reporter interviewing Chelsea.

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An avant-garde precursor to Ridley Scott's "Thelma and Louise" (1991), it charts the antics of two girls named Marie as they con lecherous geezers, steal from washroom attendants and set fires all vain attempts to forestall boredom.

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It seems scarcely credible that the systems and institutions of a great power could have failed so completely as to allow the royal family to take a lecherous, wild-eyed drunk as its spiritual and political guide.

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When she ducks into a shop to avoid the lecherous Frenchman who has been following her, she finds herself surrounded by perfumes and waited on by a stylish saleswoman, who finally names the notions that her neighbor's exotic perfumes have been hinting at.

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The staging settles down after that, with a few silhouetted palm trees in green and gold, enabling the basic story to come through: the kidnapping of Gilda by an entourage mistaking her for Rigoletto's mistress, the lecherous Duke's rape of Gilda, her unwavering crush and her father's quest for revenge.

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