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...worse than that. In Olympia, 60 miles south of Renton, Washington's Governor Daniel Evans had just finished a cup of coffee at the governor's mansion with Senate Majority Leader Charles Moriarty, and was about to start across the street to his capitol office, when the quake hit. "All I could hear," he said, "was the raining of crystals from the chandeliers in the ballroom." Evans raced to the kitchen, where his two sons, Mark, 1½, and Daniel Jr., 4, were eating breakfast, hustled them and the mansion's other occupants out onto the lawn...
Maurice Girodias, the shy little Parisian who was the world's foremost publisher of English-language pornography until tightening French censorship put his Olympia Press out of business, often talks about setting up shop in the U.S., but it is difficult to see what he could peddle. Barney Rosset, publisher of Grove Press and in a sense the American Girodias, is way ahead of him. Says Rosset hopefully: "Who knows if the limits have been reached? Just because the scientists split the atom, did they sit back and say, 'Well, that's it'?" The pioneering publisher...
Classic or simply crummy, the bulk of modern English lewd literature first tumbled into print in the Paris loft of Maurice Girodias, 45, proprietor of Olympia Press. Now, laments the first publisher of Tropic of Cancer, The Black Book, Lolita, Fanny Hill and Candy, "our role is ended." Through the imposition, by his count, of 60 bans, 100 lawsuits and six suspended prison sentences, the French government has finally got through to Girodias. "The astonishing truth is," he says, "that moral and artistic freedom have now become a reality in Britain and the U.S., whereas the same concepts are being...
Candy, originally written for Paris' Olympia Press, which specializes in sheer lubricity, is not pornography. It may even be described as antisexual; all too often, at the crucial moment, everything goes askew, and Candy slips back into her filmy panties, crying "Good grief!" Its most conspicuous intent is to be more outrageous in detail than what it is satirizing, and these days, that is hard to do. In the effort, Candy ends up dirty as hell...
...that was Rome's during the summer Olympiad of 1960. The film begins with a helicoptic view, swooping over the dome of St. Peter's, then briefly darts away to Greece to catch the sun's rays igniting the traditional torch through a burning glass at Olympia. Soon some 5,000 athletes from 85 nations parade through Rome to the vast Stadio Olimpico. The flame arrives, the Olympic flag is hoisted, and a battery of pigeons soars skyward...