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Decrying today's omnipresent pornography as "sly," the speaker at the American Booksellers Association convention in Los Angeles said he preferred obscenity because it is more "forthright." In fact, "pornography is killing sex." Not too surprising remarks from an octogenarian, except that the speaker happened to be Henry Miller...
The local doctor Astrov (George C. Scott) yearns for a Russia that would not brutalize its peasants and ravish its land, but disillusion has sunk him in drink. He too falls half in love with Elena, and she with him, but she is too indolent and conventional to make an...
No wonder. Based on a Prokofiev suite, Waltzes is perhaps Robbins' most sensuous and romantic ballet and, at the same time, an intellectually ingenious treatment of the possibilities inherent in this dance form. In the first four sections of the work, Robbins uses the waltz almost as a leitmotiv...
The luxury of fiction allowed Mishima the license of idealization difficult to discover in his actual self-destruction. His fictional suicide is Isao lunuma, a right-wing student with an obsessional love of Samurai tradition and a hatred for the 20th century's destruction of imperial values. lunuma enjoys...
They want us all to know that our rights to privacy are daily and dangerously threatened, but they raise the alarm with a true voyeur's relish. Extreme Close-Up has a sort of coy seaminess that says less about the hero's obsessions than the hang-ups...