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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...arms in holy matrimony. It is difficult to care very much one way or another. Even so, Updike's old white writing magic has not lost its skill. He can still set a domestic scene, describe a sleeping child or evoke the sights and sounds of the marriage bed-and-bored sharply enough to bring a tear to the eye of the recording angel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Uncouples | 11/15/1976 | See Source »

...easy and regards sex as an urge that can be indulged without guilt or passion, seems only half alive. Love and life, in short, gain savor from a sense of sin and self-denial. The stricture against eating the apple and the sword in Tristram and Iseult's bed are both powerful sharpeners of appetite. This is not artistic news, though the observation is now unfashionable. That being so, whether Marry Me is part apologia or all fictional serrmonette, one of its points could well be dismissed as the higher hedonism in a nutshell (forbidden fizz is always...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Uncouples | 11/15/1976 | See Source »

...episode of the comic strip "Doonesbury" that depicts a couple in bed together was dropped yesterday from several major newspapers, including The Boston Globe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: True Romance Blossoms, But The Globe Spurns Episode Of Doonesbury | 11/13/1976 | See Source »

...strip, which appears in today's Crimson, shows the characters Joanie Caucus and Rick Redfern in bed, as one episode in the story of Joanie's growing interest in the star investigative reporter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: True Romance Blossoms, But The Globe Spurns Episode Of Doonesbury | 11/13/1976 | See Source »

...tells randy jokes ancient even in the 15th century and borrows stories when he runs out of his own. Henry IV, he announces, "was something of an in somniac, and his struggles to get to sleep weren't much assisted by his habit of wearing his crown in bed." He claims to have seen Joan of Arc disguised as a deer. He talks of a blustering poet, "all red and arrogant and full of spondees." He spins a long unlikelihood to illustrate a proverb made up on the spot: "The Devil is most likely to strike when you have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Babble of Green Fields | 11/8/1976 | See Source »

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