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...lived happily for over half a century with a small but precious collection of sexless dolls, including third generation of same dating back to my Seattle grandmother's "Frozen Charlotte" of 1844, I deplore the new realism. Heavens to Betsy, we knew which was which by the color of their booties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 24, 1967 | 11/24/1967 | See Source »

Though the marquees scream about a VOLCANO OF SMOLDERING PASSION!, the view inside is little more than a Playboy peep show, less glossy but just as sexless. Lust is a popeyed man ogling a barmaid's cleavage, virginity a lacquered ex-stripper trying to look like a wide-eyed schoolgirl caught up in the evil ways of the big city. Usually, there are only random glimpses of breasts and bottoms, although lately the nudies have been edging closer to the limits of pornography with a rash of "sadie-massies" that drag in homosexuality, flagellation, voyeurism, lesbianism and assorted orgies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Trade: Nude Wave | 10/20/1967 | See Source »

...sorry for them because they dimly remembered the powerful joy that had been theirs. They wanted so much to experience it again. But that joy was not to be found on the trampled field or within the steel scoreboard--and certainly not in the dumb, sexless eye of television. The joy was gone, locked into the past, into that time of great achievement when we were all heroes in raucous love...

Author: By John D. Reed, | Title: The Agony and the Ecstasy of the Sox | 10/4/1967 | See Source »

...only he and she are sexed must be up to no good. In English, what is the sex of a bicycle, an eggplant, a subway? None. And what does this engender? According to Dr. Hartogs and Hans Fantel, a "professional writer" who has tried to guide the psychiatrist through sexless English, Americans turn "grammatical lack of gender into a linguistic sex orgy" as a reaction against -guess what? "The Puritan tradition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Future of Swearing | 9/15/1967 | See Source »

...miniskirt displaying maximum legginess. Her pose of independence is amplified by a Hula Hoop pseudo halo and a background of the Stars and Stripes. Says Lindner: "I am not a woman hater or a sadist. Women who would be angels wouldn't interest me. They'd be sexless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Artists: Baal Booster | 2/3/1967 | See Source »

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