Word: core
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...tapes. Says Detective Don Smith of the Los Angeles police department: "All the people now in video were making 8 mm or were in magazines. We're talking the same players; we're just seeing a change in the industry." The customer who cannot buy a soft-core magazine like Playboy at the local 7-Eleven can go next door and rent Oriental Lesbian Fantasies for the same price or less. And he may never go back to Playboy. Says veteran Pornographer Al Goldstein: "There's no way a magazine can compete with a tape when it comes to fantasy...
Some producers are trying to lure women by making hard-core imitations of soap operas like The Young and the Restless or Harlequin romances. Says Bill Margold of West Hollywood, a longtime performer in and director of porno films: "The industry is trying to capture the soap opera, the romance novel. We're trying to capture admiration for the female." Says Money: "On network soap operas you get above-the-beltline love and guess the rest. On videos you get below the beltline but a romantic story line as well...
...films, at least in principle. "If this porn is the new erotica that appeals to women, then I think it's terrific," says Gloria Steinem. Betty Friedan, a longtime opponent of censorship, says, "Any romantic, exploring, playful or humorous depictions of sex are O.K. with me." Women- oriented hard core will never eclipse the darker forms of porn, but as Porn Star Dare says, more and more people do not mind watching "things that couples would do when they get home...
...P.R.I. also faces challenges from within its own ranks. A fledgling movement known as the Democratic Current has emerged in recent months, demanding "democratic renovation" of the party's internal processes. Specifically, the group of about 25 core members is calling for open competition in the selection of presidential candidates. P.R.I. leaders say that the Democratic Current poses little threat to the 12 million-member party. "It is a flashy thing that attracts the attention of too many journalists," says a Mexican legislative leader. "It belongs to a tradition of internal debate within the P.R.I." A prominent political analyst...
...right wing's genial blowtorch, is absolutely correct when he howls that Ronald Reagan has "abandoned every last pretense" of standing up against the Washington establishment. Reagan has lost his presidency for the time being to that moiling collection of political people and purposes that form the capital's core from generation to generation...