Word: porno
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...avenue and hear a dozen songs wafting and mingling from a dozen different clubs, not sailors and revelers with one earring stumbling out of doors, maybe, but at least truckers and dirt farmers on a night out. But it's just a row of dirty book stores and porno booths, privacy ensured, and the old auditorium, Ryman's, which used to be the Grand Ole Opry in better days, looks like a church turned bingo hall. The Ernest Tubb Record Store is only a dingy Woolworth's--lines of cheap cowboy boots and tumbled boxes of western shirts, old George...
...main characters of the book will be the self-described "participating observer" himself. Talese, now 43 and not visibly tired, will detail his experiences of managing two massage parlors at once ("I was very good at it"), frequenting fleshpots across the U.S. and Europe, sitting through porno films and sex-therapy sessions, frolicking in nudist camps, joining in group sex and otherwise living out the genitalian fantasies of millions-all in the name of journalism. "A writer cannot write from the sidelines," he says. "It's my own life story. I'm holding nothing back...
Actually it has mattered from the very beginning. Harvard never was a mystery to me. I have lived and breathed Harvard ever since I was six (we get our heat from the Bio Lab). As a freshman I knew that Vis. Stud. was a department and not a feminist porno magazine. The names, the buildings, the people, the places, the ins and the outs so confusing to newcomers were not only familiar to me but were part of me. I did not have a problem adjusting. Of course I lost a lot of the excitement of going away to college...
...since then. That famous "it has altered the face of an art form" review was almost a watershed in her work. But the problem was that she shifted the emphasis the wrong way--toward sex, and played into the hands of the newsmagazines who turned it into a lurid porno flick at worst and a "shockingly honest" film at best, though they would have done that anyway. In fact it was a brilliant picture for different reasons, many of which, given the sensibility of Bernado Bertolucci, were political. It is a sheltering, can't talk-for-least-fifteen minutes-afterwards...
...modern life, these artists apply paint, beads and hair to their pictures, cut them up and stitch them together. They explore the artistic potential of old techniques--like gum bichromate, solarization, and cyanotype--and new chemical processes like polaroid and 3-M color. They borrow images from television and porno-magazines, create scenes in the darkroom which were never seen by a camera's eye and photosensitize anything they can get their hands on--including plexiglass, fur and linen. As Aaron Siskind, a documentary photographer whose work later became much more abstract, said, "...as the language or vocabulary of photography...