Word: meres
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sensuality is inseparable from real physical contact with real and complicated people. Playboy is first and foremost a magazine of unattainable fantasy objects. Its pictorials offer a world of anatomically perfect and nearly interchangeable surfaces. Mere flat images on a page. Such fantasies, of such predictable and derivative stereotypes, are pretty meager stuff for nurturing real intimacy and affection. The models' poses--depicting their subordination and submissiveness--offer little grounds for respecting women as equals and counterparts...
...However, mere recognition of women's history as a worthwhile field of study does not solve the problem which women's historians are trying to address...
...Bobby Baker, a somewhat shady and disreputable trade has burst into the open with a determined show of respectability. Tempted by the staggering fees lobbyists can command, lawmakers and their aides are quitting in droves to cash in on their connections. For many, public service has become a mere internship for a lucrative career as a hired gun for special interests...
...company version of gobbledygook, and he is too easily seducible by beautiful employees. Under the ministrations of expert torturers, he learns to babble meaninglessly about sports and domestic trivia, conquers the undesirable speech defects of Humblepause and Gropesounds and refuses to submit to uncorporate diversions like recreational sex. But mere electric shocks, drills and whippings are not the end of his training. As the humor turns from the disparaging to the sinister, he is given a final loyalty test: he must kill his co-worker and confidant. Will he rebel? Or has his brain, like Winston's in Nineteen Eighty...
...Mangal, a journalist, becomes a revolutionary. Saira, at once the most sophisticated and confused, shuttles uneasily between her own nation and the U.S., where she has been a Radcliffe student. Tor, the youngest, is a volatile, seething youth who receives his education in Moscow. This sibling rivalry is no mere mix in the Freudian crucible. Saira takes a Russian lover, Mangal is a lethal conniver, Tor is a black marketeer. Each child has a capacity for nobility--and for disillusion and betrayal. Boston- based M.E. Hirsh, 38, tends to be a bit long-winded: Kabul's 445 pages could have...