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...years ago, Denmark would have been as unlikely to pass such a law as Duluth. At the time, Danish courts could-and did-successfully ban such standard suppressibles as the Marquis de Sade and Fanny Hill. But as in the U.S. a decade ago, the explicitly sensational works of Henry Miller and Jean Genet were beginning to slip by. Over the years, liberalizing pressures began to build, until by 1967 kiosks abounded with magazines and paperbacks whose photographs of sexual variations and contortions made their descriptive prose unnecessary...
Writing well below his form in Marat/ Sade, Peter Weiss follows the first rule of the polemicist: never play fair. He has omitted a single, solitary act of mercy or justice on the part of his colonial administrators. Even stage villains are not that consistent. The cast, however, infuses the evening with its own humanity. The unmasked joy with which they finally rip the bogey asunder is obviously not confined to a gesture of liberation in a Portuguese colony...
Third, spicy and well-advertised novels--Lady Chatterly's Lover, The Story of O, Marquis de Sade's Complete Works (in French). Also included here are such under-the-pillow classics as Come to My Parlor, which was widely banned when first published...
...egos of his wife and children as if they were vermin. The eeriest sight of the evening was watching Patrick Magee's performance as the domineering parent: apparently no one told him that he was no longer playing the mad marquis in last season's Marat Sade...
Odds Against Amateurs. For more sophisticated plungers, options come in varied forms with arcane names-"strips," "straps," "straddles" and "spreads"-that conjure up visions of the Marquis de Sade. Actually, they are only combinations of puts and calls. A straddle is a put and a call on the same stock at the same price; a spread is a straddle with a different price on the put and call; a strip is a straddle with double-sized put; while a strap is a straddle with a double call...