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...aspect of pornography (or, if you will, erotic fantasy material) that is seldom mentioned is the myth that men regard sex as a strictly physical act, while women need "romance" to tolerate it. As a result, sexual fantasies for men keep getting more and more "gross" in attempts to escape the "female" force of emotion. And although there is a growing tide of erotic fantasy material for women, most of it is still steeped in the mushy, false-romantic mode that women have always been conditioned to like. The need for emotion and physical pleasure exists...
Champion, who ran unsuccessfully as a Udall delegate from a district which includes Cambridge, said yesterday Udall is the "most honest and responsible liberal candidate" although the candidate's chances are poor. "I seldom find myself with a winner," Champion guffawed...
Epigraphs, those concise bits of literary truth, seldom give more than an inkling of what is to come in a book. Upon reading the one prefacatory to Going Crazy, however, one has the sinking feeling that it might summarize the work as a whole...
...example of a different kind. In Borneo, evidently, I had forgotten my manners. I helped myself to other people's cigarettes. I omitted "please" and "thank you" from my conversation and seldom said "good morning" or "hello" or even "hi;" instead I grunted. At the same time, I had developed a new awareness of body language, as it is called. I had made an adjustment to Berawan etiquette, and I found Bostonians childishly assertive and threatening in their posture and way of talking. No one acquainted with Berawan history, full of warfare and headhunting, could accuse them of being sissies...
Heavy Switch. Watching the early bad news up in his room at the Pfister Hotel in Milwaukee, Carter turned to Barry Jagoda, a former CBS producer who coordinates coverage of the Carter campaign with the networks. "How often are they wrong?" he asked. "Seldom," Jagoda replied. "Well, I'm satisfied," said Carter. "I never like to finish second. But I think we've done well here." Half an hour later, at 10:30, he went down to the ballroom, addressed his disappointed backers and offered his "tentative congratulations" to Udall...