Word: sexuality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...report released last year by the Meese Commission on Pornography will not alleviate the problem of sexual violence in our society, Playboy President Christie Hefner told a Harvard Law School Forum audience last night...
...Hillela is more than just another woman who has turned sexual attractiveness to her own advantages. Gordimer writes that her heroine "has never been one to make mistakes when following her instincts," and this judgment is confirmed throughout the novel. Hillela's behavior, even at its loosest and least conventional, does not seem calculated but rather a natural response to the proper, perhaps even the moral, demands of shifting situations. Looking back on his time with her, a friend from the early days says, "She was innocent." Later, marked by personal tragedy and the rough- and-tumble life...
...embassy translator. She later introduced the Marine to her "Uncle Sasha," an operative known as Aleksei Yefimov. The scandal began to unfold when Lonetree, feeling pressure from the Soviets, surrendered to U.S. authorities in Vienna last December. Bracy, a native of Queens, N.Y., is said to have had a sexual relationship with one of the embassy's Soviet staff, a cook. Both of the women who became involved with the Marines were attractive; it is well known that the KGB uses such women -- "swallows," in the trade -- to lure contacts. "We're not talking about bag ladies here," said...
First it was Oral Roberts, announcing that God would take his life if backers did not send in millions. Then came Jim Bakker, admitting he paid heavy "blackmail" to cover up sexual sin. As fellow TV Stars Jimmy Swaggart and Jerry Falwell joined the controversy, a bystander, Pat Robertson, stood to lose the most from the Evangelicals' questionable deeds. See RELIGION...
...election in 1980 was less a new starting point than the cresting of a conservative-populist movement that began with Richard Nixon's election in 1968. That year, the Middle American constituency struck back against the activist '60s -- against antiwar protesters, against the civil rights movement and the sexual revolution, against high taxes, Government regulation, the Washington elite, the Woodstock generation. George Wallace was in full cry against "pointy-headed intellectuals." The Nixon-Agnew ticket swept into power. Watergate brought Gerald Ford's brief period of consolidation and then the anomaly of Jimmy Carter, who came to Washington campaigning against...