Word: porno
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...favorite horse. The horse lives, but Peter perishes. Unfazed, Jane gets hung up on his black stallion. It's all terribly kinky, with Peter in his leather pants, Jane in her Story of O décolletage, and the stallion with his quivering nostrils and muscular flanks-a porno graphic My Friend Flicka...
...people in Lederhosen and shawls and young people in beards and sandals. There are usually hecklers from either the far left or the far right. The New Left calls Grass a "liberal crap-head" and a "traitor to socialism." The right-wing National Democratic Party derides Grass as a "porno," because his works are peppered with four-letter words. Grass treats extremists from both sides with contempt, reminding audiences that "socialism when coupled with anarchism leads to fascism...
...those publishers is Stig Vendelkjaer, whose titles include I, a Woman. "I have 500,000 unsold books in stock," he complains. "Heaven knows how I shall ever get rid of them." Hardest hit of all, perhaps, are the obsequious little men who run Denmark's fleshier kiosks and porno stores-and who are now trying to unload for $8.50 a reel skin flicks that last year sold for $40. "The legalization is killing business," says one, "and you have to be content with what you can sell of decent magazines...
...sure many will object that of what is included too much is pornographic. Advance notice on the book made it sound like a singular piece of middlebrow porno that would bring about a best-selling marriage between the wandering tribe of former Salinger aficionadoes and Jacqueline Susann's camp followers. But Roth reads so quickly and so engagingly that much of what could pass for smut is more parody than prurience. The book lacks the turgid seriousness that marked Updike's Couples as a more perfect example of the genre. Portnoy--who admits to being "the Raskolnikov of jerking...
Other words came right out of old Scotch-Irish dialect-wee for small, kimmie for man, tweed for young man, deek for look at. Still other words were borrowed from the Porno Indians, who moved off to a reservation after an early settler set up his general store in the middle of their camping ground. A few words are corruptions of French, like gorm (gourmand...