Word: croppings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...feature the torture of submissive females. A new crop of hard-core films, including one about Patty Hearst, plays heavily to S-M tastes...
...themes are traditional in print pornography, and the emphasis appears to be growing. Since 1968 Florida State University Sociologist Don Smith has been collecting and analyzing sex novels that are freely available on newsstands and drugstore racks in small-town America. Smith calls the current crop "basically a literature of power and domination, a literature of machismo." Rape scenes, he reports, now occur twice as often as they did in the 1968 books, but the woman almost always enjoys it. "The subtheme," he says, "is that the female really does want to be subjugated: no matter how much she says...
...street, whose signs proclaim it FASHION AVENUE, traffic was all but paralyzed by porters pushing wheeled racks of garments from shop to shipper. The end product of all this activity festooned stores large and small across the country, as window displays and clothes departments bloomed with the bright fresh crop of U.S. fashions...
Green Bugs. Colorado expects to lose 70% of its winter wheat crop, and parts of Oklahoma anticipate a two-thirds decline in this year's harvest. Other sections are also suffering. In parts of the once lush wheat-growing belt that extends from New Mexico and Texas into Kansas and Iowa, the wheat shoots are stunted. Many farmers are choosing to sacrifice their crops in an effort to save the topsoil. By plowing their fields to turn the silt beneath less fragile clods and by planting soil-gripping crops, the farmers hope to conserve their valuable topsoil that otherwise...
Despite the impending harvest failures, wheat prices so far have moved upward only slightly. A big crop in other parts of the U.S. could offset the expected losses. Nonetheless, many individual farmers stand to be wiped out by this year's losses. Says Minnesota Agricultural Expert John Wefald: "Some farmers are going to kiss rural America goodbye and good night...