Word: porno
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ralph: One vote here for prurience, my sweet. Who wants to watch death- dealing hurricanes when you can switch to radio and hear Debbie from Manitoba describing her low clitoral sensitivity? How can soccer riots compare with Rosalie of Omaha asking Dr. Ruth which porno films to flash on the ceiling while locked in the clumsy embrace of Husband Bob, the rapid-fire mortician...
...seems to remember that Blair, who picks him up at the airport, was his girlfriend before he went off to school. He also dimly recalls his parents' separation, "which was, I think, about a year ago." He stays with his mother and two younger sisters; the precocious girls watch porno videocassettes in their bedroom and assure Clay that they will not snitch any more cocaine from his room because they can now buy it on their own. Before too long, Clay faces the same daily decision that afflicts all of his rich L.A. friends: whether to get drunk or stoned...
...society at large, some of the cruder forms of sexism can be sidestepped. Approaching a group of men gathered outside a strip joint or porno movie theater, a woman can simply cross the street. Vulgar sexism becomes far more threatening, however, within a close-knit campus, such as Harvard's, precisely because men and women are so closely intermingled--usually in an impressive display of peaceful coexistence. To realize that the same men who "joke" about pig feast may be the guys through the fire door, is to feel suddenly ill at case among what was thought...
...mythology, New York is Sin City: garbage on the streets, porno on the screens and larceny in the heart. And New York City women? Talk about pushy. Take Rhoda. Please. She was meant to be the quintessential New York woman, and she stood out like a kosher pickle on Minneapolis white bread. In the land of sitcoms, New York has rarely been a laughing matter. In fact, there has not been a successful sitcom set in the Big Apple since Taxi drove onto the screen in 1978, and with the exception of Rhoda no single woman has found a home...
...nation's film industry, which once gave its power to, and took its glory from, strong-minded directors, is today run by cautious bosses looking for quick profits in a few restrictive genres. Besides the ubiquitous porno, local audiences embrace movies about gangsters and itinerant swordsmen, family sagas, cartoon fantasies and stoic romances in which the hero and heroine never kiss. The endlessly popular Tora-San movies, which trace the comic misfortunes of a middle-aged wanderer and his family, will soon appear in The Guinness...