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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...play's most powerfully written moments have translated well to film. Especially remarkable is a pivotal scene in Dachau in which Max and Horst, forbidden to touch and kept under the ever-vigilant eye of their guard, make love to each other by using only words--and discover that orgasm really is in the mind...

Author: By Susannah R. Mandel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Melodramatic and Moody 'Bent' Translates Poorly to Film | 12/5/1997 | See Source »

...That gets their attention. In some men, blood-pressure drugs may lead to difficulty achieving erection and ejaculation, but few hypertensive women complain about sexual problems. According to a study by Bassett Healthcare in Cooperstown, N.Y., however, women with hypertension had a harder time achieving adequate vaginal lubrication and orgasm than women with normal blood pressure. Curiously, this was the case regardless of whether the hypertensive women took medication...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MATTERS OF THE HEART | 11/24/1997 | See Source »

...this an audience or a mosaic?" he asks after a gag bombs). Even his compliments have the bite of insults: "You look like the Fate worse than death," he purrs to one of three haggish wraiths. And when he blows his smoldering top, it's like Krakatau in orgasm. In character, design and performance, Hades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: A HIT FROM A MYTH | 6/23/1997 | See Source »

...BRUNSWICK, New Jersey: Cloning. Artificial Insemination. Big Blue. Any way you look at it, man seems bent on his own obsolescence. Now two Rutgers University professors say they have hit upon the chemical that causes female orgasm, and one of these days they may be able to simulate it. In studies of women with spinal cord injuries, the professors discovered an alternate pathway through which the sensation of an orgasm is sent to the brain. Through the vagus nerve, sensation can travel directly from the cervix, through the abdomen and chest cavity, into the neck and to the brain stem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Needs Men? | 4/7/1997 | See Source »

...living in his daughter's care, as about "to pass from this paradise into the next." Here, being loved and cared for reveals paradise; elsewhere, it's found in sexual union. The book has three rather explicit poems, including "The Rapture," in which Kinnell describes sex and orgasm in spiritual terms. (Interestingly, this poem was met with utter, embarrassed silence on Tuesday, as if there are still some taboos on public confession, even in Cambridge...

Author: By Adam Kirsch, | Title: Poets, Poems, Poetry Readings | 9/26/1996 | See Source »

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