Word: joy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...diluted form, the bondage and S-M themes show up in the popular culture, from Alex Comfort's Joy of Sex, which recommends lighthearted bondage and spanking, to rock lyrics, ads and recent fashion magazine illustrations. Last December Vogue magazine featured a 12-page fashion spread showing a man alternately nuzzling and beating the model. One sequence pictures the woman being battered off her feet in her $140 John Anthony jumpsuit. Says the porn paper San Francisco Ball of the trend: " 'Flog you!' may become the mating call...
...late in the evening and is thereby changing the viewing habits of millions of Americans. (In Chicago, Los Angeles and New York, where it appears at 11 p.m., it regularly beats out one or two news shows.) Its success, confounding the early critics (including TIME), fills Lear with unholy joy...
...week's end, the Ford camp's joy over Florida was considerably dampened by a scandal involving Campaign Manager Howard ("Bo") Callaway. He owns a two-thirds interest in Crested Butte, a ski resort near Aspen, Colo. Crested Butte wanted to use 2,000 acres of federal land on nearby Mount Snodgrass for a second, $45 million ski area. The U.S. Forest Service tentatively turned down the proposal in January 1975 on grounds that Crested Butte did not draw enough skiers to warrant the expansion...
...THIS is not as straightforward and moralistic as it sounds, mostly because Sokolov spends so much energy--maybe too much energy--being witty, in increasingly abstruse ways. At first, the humor of Native Intelligence is a sharp and satirical joy. Sokolov, like his hero Harvard '63, summa cum laude, understands exactly the kind of mind he is writing about, and he portrays intelligence intelligently and with unerring accuracy. All of Alan's foibles--his detachment, his slight scorn for everyone else, his obsessive discovery of sex, in the way he dresses--ring absolutely true. His, and Sokolov's, mind...
...cars were stolen. High auto theft rates are standard in Cambridge, which last year claimed the highest per capita rate in the country. The Harvard Police computer does not keep track of the number of cars recovered, but sources say that almost all car thefts are for joy rides. In Massachusetts, borrowing a car is merely a misdemeanor, while keeping it is a felony. One Harvard patrolman says that car owners should be particularly wary on rainy nights--car thieves don't like to walk in the rain. Sexual crimes for the six-month period are low. Only exhibitionists...