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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jones thinks that the only thing his women fans really want to unbutton is their emotions. "That's as far as it goes," he insists. "If I really went after a girl in the theater, I'm sure she'd run a mile." These days, some people find that hard to believe. At the Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas, Jones launched into / Want a Woman, and a chic brunette leaped atop a table and offered herself. Part of the act? Perhaps. Another woman tossed her room key onto the stage. If that was part...
...Even D. H. Lawrence favored rigorous censorship of smut. "You can recognize it," he wrote, "by the insult it offers, invariably, to sex, and to the human spirit . . . The insult to the human body, the insult to a vital human relationship!" On that point, both the author of Lady Chatterley and Evangelist Billy Graham would be in wholehearted agreement...
Tynan: Until quite recently, erotic art was a category of art, accepted as such in China and India. Boucher's paintings for Louis XV were intended to arouse Louis XV, and by all accounts they did. I have been sexually aroused reading D. H. Lawrence, reading Ovid and reading of Hero and Leander. And it was Sir Kenneth Clark who said that anyone who paints a nude with no desire to produce an erotic effect is a hypocrite...
...frame the Verrazano Narrows span across New York harbor: "Man has made a sewer of the river and spanned it with a poem." Reasoner discussing Americans' fascination with automobile races: "They don't come to see a crash, but if there were never any crashes they'd never come," Because of such commentaries, Harry Reasoner is widely recognized for his wit and perception; in 1966 he received a Peabody Award for his droll television essays. Reasoner is indeed wit ty and perceptive, as he shows in the radio and TV scripts he writes himself...
Shaplen's tour d'horizon includes essays on Malaysia, Laos, Thailand, the Philippines, Singapore, Viet Nam and Cambodia. Its most compelling section explores Indonesia. In a fascinating flashback that offers a good deal of new material, Shaplen re-examines the abortive Communist coup of 1965, emphasizing the probability that President Sukarno himself was involved in the takeover attempt. Despite the bloodbath that followed and the interior problems left by the Sukarno era, Shaplen sees Indonesia, the world's fifth-largest nation (pop. 113 million), as holding the "key to the region's future...