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Marilyn Chambers, 21, the Mom on the Ivory Snow box and the star of hardcore skin flicks like Behind the Green Door, gained academic credentials this week. Manhattan's innovative New School for Social Research invited her to speak at the first session of its new course: "Pornography Uncovered, Eroticism Exposed." Some 550 students turned up to see Marilyn come clean. Instead they got a tepid interview session. (Q. "How do you do 30 or 40 takes of a scene in a skin flick?" A. "You don't.") Four officers from the morals squad were on hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 15, 1973 | 10/15/1973 | See Source »

...employees in Peacock's cannery who cut and can the sardines are all women. Standing next to a conveyor belt loaded with fresh fish, they grab the sardines, cut off the heads and tails with a flick of the wrist, and stuff them into the tins. "We've tried using men to pack the fish," says Peacock, "but for some reason they just don't have the stamina. They can't take it for more than a few hours...

Author: By Daniel H. Maccoby, | Title: Rep. Cohen Walks, Listens in Northern Maine | 10/15/1973 | See Source »

...will turn into a nightmarish octopus of access roads and tracks leading to and from the tunnel terminus. Complained William Hunt, 46, of Newington: "We don't count. We're like a pea on top of a mountain. If they don't want us, they just flick us away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: A Chunnel for the Great Wet Ditch | 9/24/1973 | See Source »

...award winner is cheap stuff as romantic narrative, but the acting and the characterization make it worth watching. It's a subdued 1940's version of Easy Rider (the lonely outcast line et. al.). Montgomery Cliff is superb, and one could almost learn to like Frank Sinatra from this flick. By the way, this is the role that Sinatra got due to mob pressure when his career was at its low point. Midnight on Channel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: television | 9/21/1973 | See Source »

...Loved Cat Dancing. An all-around bad film. Burt Reynolds and Sarah Miles perform poorly in a flick that tries to prove that male chauvinism ruled the Western plains. Symphony...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: the screen | 9/21/1973 | See Source »

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