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...main reaction to Richard Nixon's passing, writes Thompson, "--especially among those journalists who had been on the Deathwatch for two years--was a wild and wordless orgasm of long-awaited relief that tailed off almost instantly to a dull post-coital sort of depression that still endures." Since that August day five years ago, Thompson, like the country, has been drifting, waiting for a new target...
Indeed Tony's coital bouts with the heroine provide Looking for Mr. Goodbar with its few insightful scenes. When this couple make violent love, we can begin to understand the complex erotic passions that draw Theresa to her self-destructive double life. The rest of the film's brutality-its harsh language, its vicious climactic murder scene-are merely heavyhanded manifestations of Brooks' moral-mongering. The audience, not to mention Diane Keaton and Judith Rossner, deserve greater rewards in exchange for the punishment. - Frank Rich
...story itself, odd as it is, grows on the reader as its goes along. The book is long enough for a number of late nights' reading, and interesting enough so it is hard to put down. Whitten has written wittily, except for his embarrassing post-coital dialogue, which runs along the line of `"Whew,' she sighed." He would have done better to follow the traditional method of ending the chapter...
...half of the Radcliffe students undergo five days of sickness for no reason. For the others, menstrual extraction could be performed if women do not have their regular period following their unprotected intercourse. Though more time-consuming for doctors and less lucrative for drug companies, this method of post-coital birth control does not endanger the women with cancerous complications. Dr. Roy Hertz of Rockefeller University states: "Addition of any artificial estrogen beyond the natural estrogen produced in the body disturbs a natural balance which even under ideal conditions is precarious...
While House Masters prepared to draft a group statement on unofficial cohabitation between sexes, other factions this week took pot shots at both pre-and post-coital contraceptives...