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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Correspondent Joseph Boyce. Driving by one apartment building, Hickman recalled, "Until recently, the whores there had a ten-year-old boy acting as a lookout." Entering an "encounter parlor," he was greeted by a woman in halter and shorts-and told that she holds "rap sessions." Then why the mattress on the floor? "That's to make the customers comfortable," the woman explained. Replied Hickman: "It's easy to see you're trained therapists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICAN SCENE: Cleaning Up the Act in Hollywood | 8/15/1977 | See Source »

...consists of four two-week packages and costs $3,000. TM has revealed few details about the flying lessons, but it does offer a suggestion or two: it may be less distracting to fly with someone of your own sex, and it is best to fly only over a mattress because landings are usually bumpy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Seer of Flying | 8/8/1977 | See Source »

...sign on the Union's notice board attracted his eye. It had all the key words: "party," "free beer," "firecracker punch," and "Pine Manor." Walter made a note of the day and time. He had heard of Pine Manor, and he had heard it called Pine Mattress. The name aroused his baser instincts...

Author: By George K. Sweetnam, | Title: Taking the party line on women's colleges | 5/27/1977 | See Source »

...where they came from," muses Millett, 42, who has been sculpting for 18 years. "I guess I just wanted to play around." Among the sculptures: a giant woman pushing a shopping cart, a housewife watching the soaps and chatting on the phone, and a seductive figure lounging on a mattress "a la Molly Bloom," as the artist says. Molly & Co. are up for sale, and Millett hopes that they will be just the thing for a backyard sculpture garden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 9, 1977 | 5/9/1977 | See Source »

...some 30 feet away. After dinner, we talked for several hours, attempting to sort out the four jumbled years since we had last met. Then I went down to the children's house, undressed in the chilly darkness and sank beneath a dozen blankets on a homemade goose feather mattress...

Author: By Joanne L. Kenen, | Title: A California Eden | 4/25/1977 | See Source »

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