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...Westerners arrived more than a century ago. In the 1700s and early 1800s, when the great samurai families ruled the peaceful, isolated island nation, Japanese artists celebrated sex in extraordinarily direct and sensual prints and woodcuts. Every well-bred virgin was given at least one graphically instructive makura-e (pillow picture) as part of her trousseau. "There was no hypocrisy," says Ukiyo-e Scholar Teruji Yoshida. "These artists dealt with the pleasures of sex as matter-of-factly as if they were dealing with other routine pleasures, like those of eating or even of just simply taking a walk...
...PILLOW, 20, Iowa, vividly recalls the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago. He was one of the protesters outside the hall, taunting police, throwing rocks, breaking windows and fleeing down side streets. Last week in Miami Beach he was sitting inside the convention hall as a member of the Iowa delegation. He prefers, he says, his 1972 style of political expression: "It's just as much fun, in a conservative way, and the satisfaction lasts longer...
...million, according to Variety, making it the fourth-ranking moneymaker in Hollywood history. Though he is only 51, Hunter is the apostle of the old big-budget Hollywood, and he would be properly mortified if anyone saw any social relevance in such Hunter-produced films as The Magnificent Obsession, Pillow Talk and the various Tammies (Tammy Tell Me True, etc.). "What I offer people is escape," he says. "I have never in my life made a picture to please me. Can you imagine that I'd make a film like Tammy...
When the young Chinese woman heard a mysterious voice asking, "What's under your pillow?" she felt sure that the answer was a "biological radio apparatus" put there by a special agent who suspected her of crimes against the state. She grew agitated, her head ached, and she began to hear loud speeches emanating from an unseen source. Then she became a patient in the psychiatric section of the Third Teaching Hospital in Peking. Before long her headaches disappeared. She recognized that her idea of being spied upon was "ridiculous," realized that she had been hallucinating, and expressed confidence...
...would complain that Mom was not feeding my younger brother or him or me. Mom would shout. Dad would swear, and my younger brother would cry. Mom and Dad threw things at each other. I could hear them even though I was in the bedroom and my pillow was over my ears. I tried to think about pretty Donna Reed while Dad shouted and swore...