Word: skins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...teenagers in George Lucas' Graffiti are a generation bursting out of its skin. In a small town and a '62 world there's no road for their rock and roll anxiety to follow: they jump in their drag racers and drive back and forth on the strip, letting off steam. Teetering at the brink of a world not quite ready to release the new energy of a frontier mentality, the kids have a brief moment of loud, confused frenzy before they go to Vietnam or settle in the suburbs...
...carried out slowly and privately, far from the reach of officials and journalists. Now and then, prompted by some election or dramatic event, an official "crisis" is declared in one of these struggles, and the detailed stories are brought to light, while bureaucrats and community leaders cling by the skin of their reputations to the unraveling tale...
Marilyn Chambers, 21, the Mom on the Ivory Snow box and the star of hardcore skin flicks like Behind the Green Door, gained academic credentials this week. Manhattan's innovative New School for Social Research invited her to speak at the first session of its new course: "Pornography Uncovered, Eroticism Exposed." Some 550 students turned up to see Marilyn come clean. Instead they got a tepid interview session. (Q. "How do you do 30 or 40 takes of a scene in a skin flick?" A. "You don't.") Four officers from the morals squad were on hand...
...leading lady-came from a similar wrangle over Julie Christie when Truffaut was preparing Fahrenheit 451. A scene of a cat lapping milk off a breakfast tray, simple in conception but tortuous in execution because of a recalcitrant feline, had its origins in a similar sequence in The Soft Skin. The prototype of Truffaut's assistant in the picture is his real-life assistant, Suzanne Schiffman...
...Vietnam had killed or maimed 20 civilians and soldiers. He realized that U.S. soldiers were using napalm as an antipersonnel weapon, not just to burn down buildings. He had never suspected that napalm could be useful to the United States because of the way it clung to people's skin while it burned. A week after he read the article, he wrote Nixon...