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...board shows a pornographic film to relieve the tension of study pressures, Mandell said. "We let off steam here," one student attending "Debbie Does Dallas" said, as his female escort added that "most of the women here do not condone the violence of the sex--we are just curious...
...long parade of limousines and buses knifed through Peking's wintry smog just before 3 p.m. As police and soldiers kept away curious bystanders, sober-faced men and women emerged from the cars, strode through the gates of the public security compound at No. 1 Zhengyi (Justice) Road near Tian'anmen Square and entered a large, brightly lighted courtroom. After taking their seats, the 35 judges and 880 "representatives of the masses" looked on impassively as the ten defendants were led into the court by bailiffs to hear the charges against them...
Ever since Charles passed 30, an age that he once said would be a good time to marry, speculation has intensified. Britons, obviously, are curious to know who will be their future Queen; they are also concerned that the Prince produce a royal heir. The field is narrowing as eligible girls are married off. Religion also poses a problem in Britain. A constitutional change would be needed before Charles could marry a Catholic, like Princess Marie-Astrid of Luxembourg. The Princess has repeatedly been mentioned as a possible royal match, but quite apart from the religious bar, the two barely...
...opposite side of its globe, which is dappled with craters and highlands. Dione resembles the earth's moon, marked by all sorts of craters, big and little, features that look like our moon's "seas," and ice flows, rills and highlands. Iapetus, one of the most curious of Saturn's moons-one hemisphere is five or six times as bright as the other -was seen only from a vast distance...
...costume greet the audience and show them to their seats. (Playgoers can see the production on two successive nights or, on Saturdays, in a marathon interrupted by a dinner break.) The cast then assembles onstage like a huge family and recites, in alternating chorus, a prologue to the curious life and adventures of Mr. Nicholas Nickleby. If this chorus work is an adaptation of classical theater technique-mastered in another grand R.S.C. production, The Greeks, staged last whiter -the sudden maelstrom of action, humor, high drama, low parody and the occasional song into which the audience is about...