Word: porn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...porn king's life...
Justly irate feminists in Manchester picketed the Star's launch-night reception breakfast and altered some of the paper's promotional posters to read A STAR is PORN. Their protest did not prevent a sellout. Earlier, the Star had hurdled another obstacle: a demand by the Communist Morning Star for a court order barring the new paper from sowing confusion among the laboring classes by appropriating its stellar name. The judge lost no time denying the motion. Said he, quite accurately: "Only a moron in a hurry would be misled...
...Hearst machine-gunned Steven Weed. Lampoon writers routinely savage Kennedys, Nixons, Third World peasants and American capitalists. No one, alive or dead, is sacred. The Lampoon's last issue included a fictional letter to the editor in which "Larry Flynt" referred to himself as "the George Wallace of porn." With this kind of animus, it is no wonder that the Lampoon's first movie has a richly deserved R rating...
...corral soon drew a throng of artists, reporters, dealers, critics, museum folk and art groupies. As the massed cameras clicked and whirred, and the crowd of connoisseurs looked breathlessly on, the bull glared at his mechanical bride and abruptly scrambled up on her. Then, with the weary expression of Porn Star Harry Reems working off his debts, Pinco ejaculated on the ground. So ended Paradiso's work of art, which was, in its way, emblematic of the Biennale: a captive beast (Natura) struggling to inseminate a fictive one (Arte) under the gaze of an impervious public...
Gould is an active feminist, and the best pieces in her book are lively exposes of the double standard. "Unfair Sex at M.I.T.," for example, cuts closest with an informal survey of reaction to the women at M.I.T. who publicly graded their lovers' bedroom proficiencies. "Porn for Women; Women for Porn" demonstrates Gould's considerable ability to explore a complex subject with style and economy. She knows how to relax: "Rolling around half naked on the floor of a mirrored room; performing unnatural acts in unspeakable positions; committing indecent exposure under glaring lights, not to mention the bold...