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...deprecating cool before it joined Björk as a cultural export. Today, you won't find too many Icelanders moaning so publicly about their dark, isolated lot in life. But you will find the spots where Hlynur and his friends live out their days of beer, cigarettes and one-night stands. Chief among them is Kaffibarinn, the pub at the fulcrum of the movie's social world, which still challenges its guests to hone the skill of keeping a full pint from spilling in a swaying crowd. By day, twentysomethings sporting hoodies and complicated haircuts tap away on laptops...
...focus U.S. attention on the victims of political persecution and torture around the world. Staged by Amnesty International to mark its 25th anniversary, the ''Conspiracy of Hope'' tour hopscotched across America by chartered 707 jet with the aforementioned lot, plus Sting and Canadian Rocker Bryan Adams, along with assorted one-night stand-ins including Bob Dylan and Bob Geldof. Very nice crew indeed, but really, aren't benefit concerts wearing a trifle thin? ''Everyone wanted us to go away after Live Aid,'' concedes Bono, an unquenchable Irishman. ''The music industry would be delighted to get back to packaging us like...
After the sexual revolution, the voices of Thermidor. From cities, suburbs and small towns alike, there is growing evidence that the national obsession with sex is subsiding. Five-speed vibrators, masturbation workshops, freshly discovered erogenous zones and even the one-night stand all seem to be losing their allure. Veterans of the revolution, some wounded, some merely bored, are reinventing courtship and romance and discovering, often with astonishment, that they need not sleep together on the first or second date. Many individuals are even rediscovering the traditional values of fidelity, obligation and marriage. Or as one San Francisco sex therapist...
...conservative trend is herpes. Since the late '70s, when it was often misdiagnosed as psoriasis, genital herpes has emerged as a major sexually transmitted ailment. Some 10 million to 20 million Americans have genital herpes, and an estimated 200,000 to 500,000 new cases appear each year. The one-night stand is now so risky that a couple interested in casual sex must get to know each other well enough to pop the herpes question?and believe the answer. Many sexologists think herpes is the chief reason for the new conservatism. Others consider it more of a symbol...
...students today are more monogamous. There's not a lot of promiscuity. This is substantiated by the fact that we see very little gonorrhea and no syphilis." At Mount Holyoke, Senior Jennifer Shaw observes: "The trend for women is not to sleep with men they meet at parties." The one-night stand is as potentially entangling for men as in prerevolutionary days. "The women who have one-night stands are really looking for further commitment," she says. Nancy Boltz, a nurse at the University of Southern California, says students age 20 and over want long-term relationships. Some younger students...