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...right, porn may eventually exhaust itself, having run out of new taboos to conquer. Yet in his 1966 study of Victorian pornography, Columbia Professor Steven Marcus described the porn impulse as "insatiable." Slade and Marcus may be making the same point: it was precisely the repressive nature of prudery that created a taboo-rich culture in which Victorian porn fantasies could take exotic shape. But if the porn industry finds no limits, it could perhaps reawaken the American taste for censorship. The very thought is anathema to most Americans. The danger is that it may be found more supportable than...
...Crimson had one enemy greater than the entire state of California--the flu. The Havens brothers, John in the number two position and Peter, ranked fourth, had valiantly tried to conquer illness since Thursday under intensive care in their native Philadelphia home...
...years since Fay Wray was strung up in a delightfully sadistic way as bait for the huge ape, only to conquer his marshmallow heart. Universal will follow the original faithfully. Wray's part has not yet been cast, but Fay herself, now 68, will have a cameo role...
...duel, first wanderings, first military combat-but he remains pretty much a figure in the foreground, rather like those little paper cutouts architects place on their models to give a sense of scale. What matters to the director is the world beyond, the world Barry is so anxious to conquer...
Play it A gain, W oody Allen's comedy about the sexual hangups of poor Allan Felix, a schlemiel who spends most of his time daydreaming about Humphrey Bogart, his idol, and all the women he'd like to conquer. See Set Kaplan's review on page 2 of today's Crimson. In the W inthrop House Junior Common Room, December 12 and 13, at 8 p.m. Tickets...