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...difference between the television and adult film versions is that on the tube, we see a bit of tush here, a lot of cleavage there, and generally hear all about other people "doing it." In the Combat Zone, films are usually light on plot and dialogue and heavy on explicit...

Author: By Andrew C. Karp, | Title: Love Weekend Style | 2/17/1981 | See Source »

While it succeeds in copying the from of typical situation comedies and pornographic films, Sunday Lovers totally lacks the substance of either. It could never be a plece of art, but if it had only replaced the fireworks of Love American Style with explicit sex, it might at least have been a bearable porno flick instead of a tiresome...

Author: By Andrew C. Karp, | Title: Love Weekend Style | 2/17/1981 | See Source »

According to one source at Monday's hour-and-a-half meeting, Bok warned organization representatives he would not change his views about the objectives of the foundation, which he will likely make explicit in his upcoming open letter...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: A Winding Path | 2/14/1981 | See Source »

...professor sees on all the exams these cogent arguments all in favor of the same viewpoint, he is going to rethink his own presentation. He'll be surprised that his lectures were so conclusive, he didn't realize he felt so strongly, but next year he'll be more explicit. Again, everyone profits...

Author: By Jeffrey Zax, | Title: Feeling Caught in the Middle | 2/5/1981 | See Source »

Censorship can, and often does, lead into absurdity, though not often slapstick absurdity like the New Jersey legislature achieved in the 1960s when it enacted a subsequently vetoed antiobscenity bill so explicit that it was deemed too dirty to be read in the legislative chambers without clearing out the public first. The mother in Whiteville, N.C., who demanded that the Columbus County library keep adult books out of the hands of children later discovered that her own daughter had thereby been made ineligible to check out the Bible. One group, a Florida organization called Save Our Children, has simplified...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Growing Battle of the Books | 1/19/1981 | See Source »

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