Word: harmlessly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Perhaps the basic question is whether pornography really incites men to violence against women, or does the opposite-lets them sublimate their aggressive sexual fantasies in a relatively harmless way. The 1970 report of the President's Commission on Obscenity and Pornography implied that it did indeed serve as a useful social outlet. But since then, at least one of the study's authors is having second thoughts. Says University of Pennsylvania Sociologist Marvin Wolfgang: "The weight of evidence [now] suggests that the portrayal of violence tends to encourage the use of physical aggression among people...
...sense, Skylab's harmless return to earth in Western Australia seemed fitting. When Astronaut John Glenn in 1962 became the first American to orbit the globe, the city of Perth had spectacularly sent him its best wishes by turning on most of its lights as he passed overhead...
Despite the perils, many Americans seemed to take a perverse pleasure in spoofing the unwelcome visitor from space. Skylab stimulated a lot of harmless hucksterism, revived some old promotional gimmicks, even became an excuse to throw parties. Inevitably, Chicken Little emerged as a dominant theme, now crying, "The Skylab is falling! The Skylab is falling!" The analogy was not quite apt, but feathers and beaks were the dress of the day for Skylab watch parties from Minneapolis to Manhattan. Guests at the "first and last annual greater New Orleans Skylab observation party" were asked to bring binoculars, telescopes and crash...
...much of an advance on, that of Young Americans. "Boys Keep Swinging" sets the throbbing electronic pulse of "Heroes" to lyrics that sound like Bowie's answer to the Village People. He's always skirted the epicene, of course, and this is just a bit of harmless camp, but it seems out of place next to the wanderlust and cosmopolitan vigor of the rest of the album...
...been asked to reprimand another boy, did it blisteringly well, felt ashamed of himself and decided that "I couldn't and wouldn't play this idiotic role any longer." At 14 he refused to join the Komsomol, and at 16 he was running with a harmless group of youthful Pimpernels who sympathized with the Hungarian uprising...