Word: raped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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LIKE HOLLOW WOODEN DOLLS that fit neatly inside one another, there are four worlds in The Blacks, each of which builds to its own frightening realization. There is the world of their stage; an uninvolved white court watches Village reenact the rape and murder of a white woman, played rather reluctantly by a blond-bewigged Diouf. On our stage, the black-black-actors judge and condemn the white-black-actors and march them into hell. In the world of the theatre as a whole, we the predominantly white audience begin to perceive the actors as a unified group manipulating...
...mood or of the single mind required to take on the porn lords. Another factor was the growing tendency of police and prosecutors to argue that campaigns against "victimless crime" represented a misuse of limited resources that should be devoted to coping with the ever rising rates of murder, rape, robbery and mugging...
...emphasis appears to be growing. Since 1968 Florida State University Sociologist Don Smith has been collecting and analyzing sex novels that are freely available on newsstands and drugstore racks in small-town America. Smith calls the current crop "basically a literature of power and domination, a literature of machismo." Rape scenes, he reports, now occur twice as often as they did in the 1968 books, but the woman almost always enjoys it. "The subtheme," he says, "is that the female really does want to be subjugated: no matter how much she says no, go ahead and do it anyway, because...
...opponents of porn, that is one of the problems. Will porn's power to lessen inhibitions, which has perhaps already won some acceptance for practices long regarded as aberrant, do the same for rape and sadomasochism, both now part of the usual repertoire of film and printed porn? Writer Irving Kristol complains porn is considered harmless "by the very same people who seem convinced that advertisements in magazines or displays of violence on television do indeed have the power to corrupt...
...trunk line. Says Barbara Howar, recalling her "airplane luggage carnival" to hype her first book Laughing All the Way (1974): "I grew to hate lamb chops, but it was the only thing you could count on the hotel not ruining." Between stops for Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape, Author Susan Brownmiller remembers looking at her publisher's schedule and reading "Eat sandwich now!" They were right. It was the only chance...