Word: scarlets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...temporarily withdrawn from theaters to allow the censors' scissors to transform it from an X- to an R-rated movie (children under 17 admitted with parent or guardian). After 60 days Clockwork will emerge from the Motion Picture Association of America's purification rite shorn of its scarlet letter, and two "explicit" sex scenes totaling 30 seconds. One is a bedroom romp involving Alex and two willing girls; the other shows soldiers raping a girl. The changes, Warner Bros, hopes, will attract a wider audience. Some theaters refuse to show X movies, and an increasing number of newspapers...
Another indication of the reality of youthful sex is the rising incidence of VD, which has now reached epidemic proportions in high schools and colleges. After the ordinary cold, syphilis and gonorrhea are the most common infectious diseases among young people, outranking all cases of hepatitis, measles, mumps, scarlet fever, strep throat and tuberculosis put together. In 1970 there were at least
...represent a rallying-cry to the oppressed, to the long-suffering victims of sexual exploitation and abandonment, but an elementary lesson in power politics: meet your favorite heroine and watch her gain power through victimization. From the bronchial death-throes of Clarissa Harlowe to Pearl in The Scarlet Letter, "a pre-vision of a Fitzgerald flapper," women in fiction seem to have mastered (or mistressed) the fine art of psychological castration...
Railroads are rich in history if not money, and none has been quite so colorful as the Erie Lackawanna. Decades ago, investors commonly called it the "Scarlet Woman of Wall Street" because its stock was manipulated and fought over in some celebrated battles between Jay Gould, Jim Fisk, Commodore Vanderbilt and Daniel Drew. Later, the road became known as the "Route of the Phoebe Snow" because of a famous ad campaign that boasted about its clean passenger trains...
Last week the road of the Scarlet Woman and Phoebe Snow was knocked over by Tropical Storm Agnes. Floodwaters damaged 135 miles of track in upstate New York. Directors saw the disaster as the last straw for the cash-starved line and filed for bankruptcy. President Gregory Maxwell hoped that by putting off all debt repayments, the Erie could rework its "unwieldy and overburdening debt structure...