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...more people but by listening to Cassandra, given that my attitude toward sex is about as subtle as my attitude toward writing, only without bothering with that introductory-paragraph part. So I signed up for a seminar at Toys in Babeland, a sex shop run by lesbians in Manhattan. Thirty other men in their 20s and 30s showed up for "Sex Tips for Straight Men." It turned out lesbians know a lot about how to have sex with a woman. They suggested conning your partner into doing things by making a dinner date to talk about your sex life...
...giggling and passing stuff around. I never got tired of tapping the woman in front of me with a vibrator. Eager to continue tapping, I checked out Passion's competitor, Temptations Parties, where company founder and November 1982 Playmate Marlene Janssen taught a dozen women in a Manhattan apartment how to test vibrators on the tips of their noses. Apparently, if it makes you sneeze, you won't be able to tolerate it. Although that information was surprising, the most shocking revelation was that it takes a group of women 45 minutes before someone starts using...
...that depends on your definition of shit. In the 60s and 70s, much New Yorker fiction had a sere, affectless style - embodied (or disembodied) by the stories of Donald Barthelme - that spoke to a narrow band of Manhattan intelligentsia. Playboy spread its net to include all forms of fiction, from Styron and Ken Kesey to the science fiction of Ray Bradbury and Philip K. Dick. Further, The New Yorker could intimidate readers into accepting its crabby tone, because the magazine knew best; it really was written for a certain kind of New Yorker. Playboy had to sell each story...
...Cornell Woolrich, the famous mystery writer, received a fan letter from his old Columbia University professor Mark Van Doren, complimenting him on the movie adapted from his novel ?Black Angel.? Woolrich replied that he?d seen the film in a Manhattan theater and added, ?I was so ashamed when I came out of there. All I could keep thinking of in the dark was: Is that what I wasted my whole life...
...rests largely on the movies, good or bad, made from his fiction. Here, then is a festival of Woolrich films spanning seven decades and five countries. Most of the movies are available for purchase online, or can be rented from netflix.com. I found all but two in three Manhattan video stores (World of Video, Kim?s and, for the Indian film, Naghma House). A Woolrich starter set would comprise ?Phantom Lady,? ?The Window,? ?No Man of Her Own,? ?Rear Window,? ?The Bride Wore Black,? ?Kati Patang,? ?Martha? and ?Original...