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...Scandinavian sexual technocrats, with brilliant cameo roles for the functioning flesh of various unnamed actors." The pedigreed experts drone on about the psychology of orgasm while nude sexual acrobats perform illustrations. "It purports to be an animated Little Golden Book of marital relations," wrote Judge Moore, "or perhaps the Kama Sutra of electronic media, although the film is nowhere nearly as rich in the variety of its smorgasbord of delights as comparison with that ancient Hindu classic might suggest. It may be the vulgate scripture, the Popular Mechanics of interpersonal relations, marriage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Popular Mechanics of Sex | 9/28/1970 | See Source »

...economic cooperation between West Germany and the Soviet Union was already on the road. West Germany's Daimler-Benz last week confirmed rumors that it is indeed negotiating with the Soviets to build what would be the world's largest truck plant on the banks of the Kama River, 560 miles east of Moscow. The West German automaker also announced that Soviet Automobile Minister Aleksandr Tarasov will go to Stuttgart later this month to discuss the project. As a spokesman for Daimler-Benz put it: "Good economic relations can be the foundation for improvement of the political situation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany: Politics on Wheels | 9/14/1970 | See Source »

...present, the Soviets produce 500,000 trucks per year, but 90% of these are light models of three-ton capacity or less. They badly need a modern plant such as the Kama River facility, which would turn out 150,000 huge diesel-driven trucks annually. They could also use an infusion of Western European skills to improve the engineering of their trucks, whose tendency to break down has long been a grim joke among the Russians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany: Politics on Wheels | 9/14/1970 | See Source »

...Indian directors never hesitate to feature bump-and-grind girly dances so provocative that they "may almost be called the performance of a unilateral act of coitus." The argument impressed few Indians; in a recent poll, 75% opposed kissing and nudity in films-this in the land of the Kama Sutra and the world's most erotic temple carvings. Buddha himself helps explain such contradictory attitudes toward sex. Like St. Augustine, he spent his youth exulting in the pleasures of the flesh and his later years exalting the spirit. More immediate was the puritanical impact of the Moslems, whose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Asia: Beyond the Blue Horizon | 10/17/1969 | See Source »

...shall not, with luck, look upon his like again." At his best when savaging real people and slinking through real events. Flashman keeps his narrative moving smartly. Perhaps to make room for other sorts of depravity, sex is at a happy minimum, though he does deal out the Kama Sutra ("It is all nonsense, for the seventy-fourth position turns out to be the same as the seventy-third, but with your fingers crossed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Whose Who's Who? | 9/5/1969 | See Source »

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