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...Stones in the studio recording Sticky Fingers. We see the machinations of the music industry attempting to alchemize the flailing fury of '60s rock 'n roll into cold cash. We see the Stones pensive and melancholy as they watch their own concert footage-including their own pitifully flaccid attempts to calm the crowd...
...over and comforting a baby they fear God plans to take from them. Or is it two babies? Their child, born on Aug. 8, is conjoined twins--two lives joined at a circular pelvis. One twin, called Mary in court papers to protect the family's anonymity, has a flaccid, useless heart, no working lungs and an underdeveloped brain. She can suck, kick and open one eye but may not have consciousness. Her bodymate Jodie is "bright, alert, sparkling...very much a 'with-it' sort of baby," say doctors who testified before British high-court judge Robert Johnson. Mary...
FOOD AND SEX Pfizer's little blue pill may do more than revive a flaccid love life. Viagra could restore normal digestion to millions of diabetics who suffer from gastroparesis, an affliction that causes bloating, loss of appetite, vomiting and dehydration. The drug eases a clenched stomach muscle to facilitate passage of food (much as it relaxes a muscle in the penis to allow blood flow)--at least in mice. Study results were so uplifting that researchers plan to start human trials as early as next month...
...Office for the Arts brings many odd people to Harvard. Some are musicians, some are artists, others write plays about flaccid sexual organs. Jay Critchley is one such invited guest. Critchley is the author and director of The Lympdick Diatribes: It's Hard to Be a Man, a series of short testaments to the testicles centered in the town of Lympville, where getting it up is going wrong. The show, a workshop piece inspired by the actors' improvisations, weaves together an entirely odd but nonetheless perversely witty original manifesto of cock that mocks The Vagina Monologues, embraces bestiality, and addresses...
...Lampoon could not respond to the onslaught. Despite inspired and witty trash talk, such as, "Hey Wirzbicki! More like, Loserbicki!" the pranksters' bats remained flaccid...