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...apartment is too small. The dog is too large. Michel has just been caught having an affair with a pressagent. And the best job Josepha can get for the moment is in a soft-core porn movie. Well, that's show business, and it is hard to remember a movie that has better caught the flavor of life down at the supporting-player level (where you do your best work in little theaters for audiences of a hundred and your worst work on television for audiences of millions) than Christopher Frank's wise, rueful, often comical little import...
...cult flicks, and Borgart orgies. The Harvard Square Theatre shows a lot of movies that probably didn't deserve to exist the first time around, but you will also find a steady stream of classies and up to 20 different shows every week. The midnight screenings often feature soft porn along the lines of Emmanuclle and the New York Frotic Film Festival. Yes, there are little old men in rain coats there...
...Beaver fans, disillusioned by the late '60s, wrote their own contemporary psychic postscripts to the show. Beaver was said to have been killed in Viet Nam. Wally was reputed to have married either Barbara Billingsley or Raquel Welch. Eddie Haskell was rumored to be either Porn Star John Holmes (whom he resembles) or the wraithlike Alice Cooper. The collective unconscious of '60s America, resenting and yet longing for the simple verities of Mayfield, attempted to corrupt the suburban paradise...
After chastity slouched off into exile in the '60s, the sexual revolution encountered little resistance. Indeed, in the age of the Pill, Penthouse Pets and porn-movie cassettes, the revolution looked so sturdily permanent that sex seemed to subside into a simple consumer item. Now, suddenly, the old fears and doubts are edging back. So is the fire and brimstone rhetoric of the Age of Guilt. The reason for all this dolor: herpes, an ancient viral infection that can be transmitted during sex, recurs fitfully and cannot be cured. Also known as the scourge, the new Scarlet Letter...
...entirely satisfying explanation. You still wonder why it always seems to be Dershowitz who had to take it upon himself to keep the government honest by freeing criminals. He has, after all, challenged the government as a lawyer of last resort in many controversial cases--ranging from defending porn star Hary Reems to representing nursing home mogul Bernard Bergman to backing CIA agent-turned-whistleblower Frank Snepp to aiding the JDL conspirator. In some cases, his clever defenses advanced civil liberties; in others, they freed people who should be behind bars...