Word: sexuality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dial Om for Murder" was the catchy title in Rolling Stone. The 1987 article told of drugs, sexual abuse and bodies buried helter-skelter at New Vrindaban, the 3,000-acre community built in West Virginia by members of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, better known as Hare Krishnas. The journalist-authors, John Hubner of the San Jose Mercury News and Lindsey Gruson of the New York Times, who teamed up for the piece, have apparently found the association rewarding. Monkey on a Stick is their expanded, though not necessarily deepened, account of the Hindu religious movement that started...
...Lesbian Alliance (CGLA) complained after the dining hall employee received an anonymous note that read, "Get the homos out of the kitchen. You are encouraging AIDS. Die!" The employee, James S. Mukherjee, said football players later harassed him with hoots, cat calls, and derogatory references to his sexual orientation...
...miniseries progressed, the focus swung away from politics to the steamy sex scandal of Crane's relationship with Fallon and their tendency towards kinky sexual behavior. Favorite Son provided one of the most explicit sex scenes I've ever seen on television. It features Koslowski, clad in push-up bra and garter belt, perched on the bed as she tries to seduce the FBI agent investigating the case. She produces two ribbons from her bureau and ties them around her wrist, then raises her hand to the bedpost moaning, "Tie me up." Bad politics, it seems, has concomitant vices...
...portrayal of senators as sex degenerates. Gary Hart and Donna Rice, Ted Kennedy and Chappaquidick, the Congress and their pages: these scandals shook American politics not simply because they demonstrated poor judgement but because we as a nation are so uncomfortable with the idea of our leaders being sexual. We want them to be above desire, above emotion and strictly in line with...
...here isn't the laughter, tears or shock that you feel during the film--it's the questions that stay with you long after you've left. The Good Mother poses many of these, from how a mother can choose between her lover and her daughter, to what constitutes sexual morality and molestation. These issues remain long after you've left the popcorned seats behind--proof that The Good Mother is a film not easily forgotten. It may even make...