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"He'd take me to the five-and-dime and buy me a ribbon for my hair or a plastic duck to sail in the bath. I limited my life to him." So says Meta Carpenter Wilde, 69, recalling her 18-year romance with Novelist William Faulkner. From the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Happy, Happy, Happy | 11/15/1976 | See Source »

The erotic overtones of this surmise tinge Gass's entire argument. For he is not finally interested in pinning "blueness" to the wall, but in suggesting what is truly "blue" in the realm of art. Not, he insists, the vivid depiction of sexual activity. Literature can convey only a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hue and Cry | 11/15/1976 | See Source »

Oshima extrapolated the film from a real incident. In Tokyo in the 1930s, a prostitute concluded her love affair with a gangster by castrating him, then wandered the streets for several days carrying his severed sex organs. Haunted by Genet and Mishima, animated by memories of De Sade, Oshima splashes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: More a Famine than a Festival | 10/25/1976 | See Source »

This brand of positive thinking, plus a catchy title and heavy promotion, is making Dyer wealthy. Your Erroneous Zones has sold 150,000 copies in six months and is now No. 2 on TIME'S bestseller list. A balding, hitherto little-known professor at St. John's University...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Coping with How-to-Cope Books | 10/11/1976 | See Source »

One solution is to concede that Calcutta may not have been so elegantly erotic, after all. Carte Blanche, says Tynan, "is a more ambitious show than Calcutta, which had inevitable crudities and had to be more aggressive because it was trying to establish a beachhead." This time he has sought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Back on the Bawds | 10/11/1976 | See Source »

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