Word: personals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...straight and pure. I don't think playing with yourself is pure; I think it's dirty. I don't think people with perverted habits are more or less wrong than people with unperverted habits, but they can be cured... I don't believe that the exploitation of another person's body because it is a different sex is any more noble than the exploitation of another person's labor because he is a different color. Very simply, I believe in purity. I don't thank that God, who gave a man and woman instincts, is so impotent that...
...face of such Burroughsian challenges the other side typically seeks refuge behind the grey, authoritarian prose of the law. In Massachusetts, whoever sells to a person under 18 anything which is "obscene, indecent or impure, harmful to minors, or manifestly tends to corrupt the morals of youth" faces imprisonment for five years and a $5000 fine, Chapter 272, Section 28, of the Massachusetts General Laws Annotated proclaims...
...with the best. Last year, for example, a stoned hanger-on entered Tommy's one night, leaped up on the counter, and tried to kick Tommy in the face. Tommy snatched his leg out from under him, dumping him back on the floor. The assailant smashed the first person to reach him. Moving out from behind the counter, Tommy took him by the neck, threw him down, and jumped on him. The Big Splash. Ten minutes later, when the cops arrived, Tommy was still sitting...
Finch's direction is simple to the point of being unimaginative. When a character has a line, he walks up to the person he's addressing, speaks the line, and moves back to wherever he was standing. The characters who aren't speaking are given little or nothing to do while waiting for their lines, and at its worst, the production becomes a series of stage tableaux: two people talk downstage, and everyone else stands stiffly in the background. He makes an attempt at historical accuracy by having Abigail and her teen-age cronies enter the courtroom knitting (because good...
...other team that sent a scout to see me in person was Oakland [the AFL Oakland Raiders]. He stopped by in early February and asked me the standard questions: height, weight, speed, positions, military and marital status. A week before the draft the Rams called long-distance from Los Angeles with the same questions. And I also got letters from 12 or 15 teams, requesting the usual information...