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Touring Hollywood in his unmarked blue squad car, Hickman pointed out the sights to TIME 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...
...second artichoke to investigative reports on vegetables and hot scoops on wicker furniture Newsroom cynics jest that it is difficult to get a story into the paper without a recipe attached. Others suggest that the Times augment Living with a weekly section called Dying, filled with obituaries and funeral-parlor ads, and launch a new insert called News. A hapless reporter, so one routine goes, was sent to cover a flower show for Living, missed the crucial unveiling of a new strain of begonia and, as punishment, was made a foreign correspondent...
...cheerleader Sis Boombah. There is Mary Ann Singleton, newly arrived in San Francisco and immediately caught up in that city's often kinky lifestyles. In Des Moines, the heroine is Farm Girl Probity Prisswillow who, knowing not what she does, takes a job in a massage parlor. Baby Jill...
Some of the resulting contrasts with Beatles songs work better than others. Strawberry Fields Forever, a drug song, is backed by masses of huge, drowsy faces, ballooning up over the stage as they smoke pot, looking as passive as numbed denizens of an opium parlor. Revolution, in which the Beatles dissociate themselves from violence, shows hooded Klansmen burning a cross, and a monk in self-immolation to protest the Viet Nam War, serenely praying as delicate traceries of flame sweep over him. The words of a famous Lennon love song about the need to make up after a spat...
...state society of certified masseurs demanded that the phrase "massage parlor" be expunged from the language because the term tends to denigrate all practitioners of the hoary art of body rubbing...