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People in the '70s knew two things about Marilyn Chambers: she had appeared as a model on an Ivory Snow box, fondly holding an infant under the corporate slogan "99 and 44/100% Pure"; and she starred in Behind the Green Door, one of the first, weirdest and most popular hard-core movies in that brief period of the '70s known as "porno chic." These two factettes, with their colliding irony, made the blond, willowy Chambers the pinup princess of XXX cinema, a notoriety she parlayed into a career in soft- and hard-core sex films that lasted from 1972 until...
...married park mechanic, and Mottola asks us to stop laughing and start crying. “Adventureland” wants to explore the commitment struggles of two genuinely attached adults, but the theme park setting feels like a middle school as rumors bring about the breakup of the popular couple. “Superbad” succeeded because it laughed at the blatant immaturity of its protagonists and through that managed to arrive at a kernel of emotional charm. “Adventureland,” by contrast, never reaches this same endearment, though it aims more directly for dramatic...
...Harvard’s first run-in with suspicious letters this year. In late January, Law School professor Alan M. Dershowitz received a letter containing a suspicious white powder, a threat that turned out to be a hoax. Since the anthrax scares of 2002, threatening mail has become a popular method for turning an innocuous letter into a alarming—if not always lethal—terrorism device. —Staff writer Elias J. Groll can be reached at egroll@fas.harvard.edu...
...Danaë” shows the rape of the mother of Perseus (voluptuously spread on a coach) by Zeus, who has transformed himself into a shower of gold coins—a 24-carat money shot—to seduce her. The scene clearly had intense popular attraction, and transgressive erotic appeal, and one contemporary remarked that this version made one of Titian’s earlier editions of the scene look like a portrait of a nun. Where these artists made their fame and their fortunes, however, was with large-scale religious works for Venice?...
...last September's elections for a new LDP leader. "Given the problems that Japan faces, people feel that there's a solid quality to Yosano, a trustworthiness that makes people feel confident he's in charge," says Curtis. In a newspaper poll conducted six weeks ago, Yosano tied with popular former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi as the public's second choice for the next premier. (The No. 1 pick was opposition leader Ichiro Ozawa...