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OP In the original trailer for the 1946 movie "The Harvey Girls" starring Judy Garland, the film is described by MGM as "Gay and Lusty." It is the story of a young woman riding a train from the East out West to become a mail-order bride, who falls in with a company of young women who are going to some remote place to open a "Harvey House" restaurant. The arranged marriage is never accomplished, Judy falls for the nasty owner of a nasty saloon in competition with the Harvey House and ... you know.
While there is romance in the story, it could properly be described as neither "gay" nor "lusty" in 2005 terms. My, how this language of ours changes.
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