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...most reasonable objection to pornographic films is to their sordidly chauvinistic, exhibitionistic portrayal of women. Depiction of the female body as existing solely for male satisfaction makes much chewier grist for one's moralistic mill than mere nudity or sex. Unfortunately, many self-styled guardians of the public taste seem to flail aimlessly at the naked flesh without real attention to the way it -- and the viewer -- are being exploited...
...which and more will be grist for TIME'S newest section, The Sexes. TIME'S system of organizing the news by subject has always been flexible. We have started new departments in response to trends or mounting concern (for example, Environment) and on occasion phased out others. The Behavior section, only four years old, has been covering many facets of the male-female relationship, but we decided that the field deserved its own section. It will appear in alternation with Behavior. We expect to treat the subject seriously, scientifically when possible, but humanly and at times, we hope...
...Wilson's routines. "He sneaked up behind me and said, 'Say, Mama, look at that dress in the window . . .' " The listener chuckles at the transparent rationalization. Everybody knows that there isn't any real devil. The devil is just a myth, a relic of folklore, grist for a joke...
Instead, he is out to restore humanity to a country that has too long been grist for everyone's political mill. Part of the crime of Vietnam has been a failure of visualization. It has been too easy to develop a seven o'clock news mentality that agonizes only thirty minutes a day. So Coutard particularizes circumstances and thus humanizes them. Hung is a kind of Vietnamese Huck Finn, and the acting of young Phi Lan in that role is completely sympathetic...
Such notions are the stuff that paradox is made of-true grist for the comic novelist. In MF, Burgess takes off from a Levi-Strauss contention that a universal connection exists between answering conundrums and committing incest. According to this view, it was not by chance that Oedipus' unwitting incest occurred after he solved the riddle of the Sphinx. Among the Algonquin and Iroquois tribes, there is a legend of brother-and-sister love in which riddles are posed by talking owls. In a 1967 essay, Burgess marvels at this transcultural yoking. In MF, the old Algonquin yarn...