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...bedroom was a regular old room with a pink chenille bedspread. You open the door to find it lined with smoked mirrors which reflect a woman in a black bikini who looks like your wife, except that her hair is no longer brown but blonde-streaked, lying on a fur throw that covers leopard-spotted sheets on the bed. If you are a real man, which Joan Garrity, author of The Sensuous Woman, assumes you are, you will hop into bed and screw for the next three days, letting your wife up only "long enough to get food and drink...

Author: By Deborah B. Johnson, | Title: Smoky Mirrors Sex and the Single Object THE SENSUOUS WOMAN, | 10/6/1970 | See Source »

...four keys to being sensuous are: "heightened sensitivity, appetite, the desire to give and sexual skill." For the first, Garity recommends a series of ten "sensuality exercises." Some of these are simply heightening the tactile sense- like running fur hats over your body- which anyone who has ever smoked dope has probably already developed. There are also tongue exercises (more on this later) and suggestions to buy lace underwear. One of the more important of these "exercises" is buying another book- Bonnie Pruden's How to Keep Slender and Fit after Thirty - and doing the exercises in that...

Author: By Deborah B. Johnson, | Title: Smoky Mirrors Sex and the Single Object THE SENSUOUS WOMAN, | 10/6/1970 | See Source »

...that hateful dictator and the bleating industry which he leads around by the nose all lose their fur-lined shirts on this graceless, hideous, frumpish monstrosity! I, for one, refuse to start looking like my own grandmother at the whim of this tyrannical male chauvinist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 28, 1970 | 9/28/1970 | See Source »

...recommendation of Strauss that he received his first appointment as a conductor, at the Strasbourg Opera. His career was more scholarly than Barbirolli's had been; when he advanced to the post of principal conductor of the Berlin State Opera, he also served as Professor at the Hochschule fur Musik in Berlin. A Hungarian national, Szell left Germany during the Nazi era and conducted throughout the world, from Australia to Edinburgh...

Author: By Michael Ryan, | Title: Barbirolli and Szell Masters of a Changing Art | 9/21/1970 | See Source »

...attentiveness for its own sake, he frees himself for a time by tasting and testing along with her. Ink tastes like "charred toenail," bark is like vulcanized crab meat, and leather, "a taste here not of the meat or the fat next to the hide but of the fur once outside it and of seaweed iodine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Through the Sound Barrier | 9/7/1970 | See Source »

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