Word: aphrodisiac
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...phenomenon with alarm. Studies showing that Elvis fans had a below-C average were circulated. A Senate subcommittee started to investigate the link between rock 'n' roll and juvenile delinquency. Pablo Casals condemned rock 'n' roll as "poison put to sound," Frank Sinatra called it a "rancid-smelling aphrodisiac," and Samuel Cardinal Stritch labeled it "tribal rhythms...
...Perilous Aphrodisiac. The peril and excitement come from other fugu dishes. Most risky is a milky-white preparation of fugu testes that is mixed with hot sake and drunk by eager virility seekers. The testes are nontoxic, but the ovaries and liver are so deadly that small bits of them can kill a man, and it takes an experienced chef to distinguish a deadly liver from an aphrodisiac testis...
...that he's rundown. Each day Bobo gets a massive dose of vitamin E, swigs pure wheat-germ oil, eight raw egg yolks, a jigger of thiamine and a 20-mg. jolt of male hormones. Each day also brings more letters, aphrodisiac recipes and snide phone calls from citizens who don't like what Bobo is doing to their city's image. Many Seattleites volunteer remedies: "Send Fifi away on a separate vacation," wrote one woman. "It works for me every time. Bobo will love her when she comes back." A man who lives on Puget Sound...
...LOVER by Harold Pinter, and PLAY by Samuel Beckett. Pinter's couple indulge in the aphrodisiac of a make-believe affair, while Beckett's trio reveal with solemn hu mor the banality of adultery...
Smut Blackout. Police in Tokyo and other cities quietly started their cleanup campaign early this year. For one thing, they banned the manufacture and sale of a variety of ingenious aphrodisiac devices such as battery-powered vibrators, for whose production Japan is famous. Plainclothesmen were posted at the special "sex drugstores" where the gimmicks had been sold...