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...Mason City has five all-nude bars, a massage parlor, an adult movie-house and a porn bookstore. TIME Correspondent Barrett Seaman reports that the city's reaction falls "somewhere between resignation and benignity." As Editor Walk puts it, "Nobody's running up and down the streets throwing rocks." Ken Gutterman, 50, owner of Lock Photos, a camera shop, says: "I just accept it, but I've never been in one of those places in my life...
...strain of finding a common bond between Erica Jong and Elizabeth Barrett Browning forces Moers into some ingenious critical parlor games. Setting the tone in her opening chapter, ("My tale is one of triumph"), Moers presents a cloying portrait of George Sand as a scribbling SuperMom-prototype of the "efficient, versatile, overworked modern mother." The need to establish distinctly female traditions also leads to unabashed juggling of literary records. It makes no sense for a critic who has written intelligently about Thackeray and Dickens in previous books to claim that illiteracy is "plainly a woman's theme" or that...
...words more than in the Bible, the book is both massively silly and regularly entertaining. With its jumbling of serendipitous facts and legends, crackpot theories, gossip and lunacies through the ages, The People's Almanac resembles nothing so much as an inspired collaboration between Benjamin Franklin and Rona Barrett. Paul Gray...
...guess I'll support the winning liberal candidate, but I couldn't work for anybody else," Tom Barrett '77, a Shriver worker, said yesterday...
Soaring population and the first real depression in the island's modern history have compounded the social stresses of breakneck industrialization. Pro-independence leftists are attempting to exploit the turmoil both on the island and abroad. TIME Correspondent Laurence I. Barrett visited Puerto Rico to learn how its people and politicians are coping. His report...