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Defining the ancient taboo becomes hard in an era of recombinant families created by divorce, remarriage and adoption. The traditional stricture -- no carnal relations between parent and child or brother and sister -- still holds, but how does it apply to today's blended and extended families, where blood ties are often thin or absent...
Metallica is not the only band turning heavy metal into pure platinum. Skid Row's latest, Slave to the Grind, has sold 2.5 million copies worldwide since last June. Van Halen's For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge entered the charts 13 weeks ago at No. 1 and sold 2 million copies in less than a month. Poison's past three albums, Look What the Cat Dragged Down, Open Up and Say Ahh and Flesh and Blood, have sold a combined total of 12 million copies; all five of Motley Crue's have sold more than 1 million each...
Many first-year teams have names fraught with innuendo, such as the "Lionel Lollipops" with its slogan "Just try to like us." One Canady entryway named its team "The Slippery Fingers." Matthews Hall North expressed a less carnal attitude, naming its team "The Good Personality...
...hard to top The Twelve Caesars by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (born circa A.D. 69). A classic capital insider, Suetonius served as chief secretary to the Emperor Hadrian and wrote a number of books that certainly sound like best sellers, most of them, unfortunately, now lost. Connoisseurs of the carnal particularly lament the disappearance of his Lives of Famous Whores. But The Twelve Caesars still packs plenty of punch per sesterce: Augustus as an elderly man, relentlessly deflowering virgins, some of them procured for him by his wife; Tiberius training young boys, whom he dubbed his "minnows," to nibble...
...CARNAL KNOWLEDGE. Before there was the astringent Jules Feiffer film about the war between men and women, there was his play -- unproduced in New York until this off-Broadway staging. Instead of Jack Nicholson, Art Garfunkel, Candice Bergen and Ann-Margret, brat packers Judd Nelson, Jon Cryer and Justine Bateman are the stars...