Word: skins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Valenta can be sure of his guests' marital status, he cannot say, but in deference to their sensibilities, both motels feature only "softcore" movies that are less explicit than the fleshy dramas projected in skin-flick houses (sample titles: Peeping Melvin, Lusting for Life). For most registrants, soft-core seems quite sufficient...
...Crest's manager, Nick Valenta, has a ready explanation: "About 90% of our guests," he says, "are married couples who always wanted to see this stuff but didn't want to go out to a skin flick in a bar. Now they can watch in the privacy of their own room...
...American city. She was both fascinated and appalled by the unfeeling, single-minded pursuit of sheer survival shown by Al and Harry, two panhandlers in their 70s with whom she trudged the streets. They spent their days, she writes with compassion, "scurrying around the city, like chiggers under the skin of civilization...
...Italian restaurant where the Puerto Rican headwaiter is tricked out to look like a cowboy. The autograph hound is Benny Walsh, a busboy at a big Broadway restaurant called the Homestead. His girl friend Gloria burbles about cottages for two, aspires to break into show biz, but acts in skin flicks. What Aristotle would call the complication is simplicity itself: Benny, who is about to lose his job, has a chance to put in a fix with the head of his union. For $350 and a case of Scotch he can get a job in a more fashionable eatery. Should...
...defendant was Mature Enterprises Inc., operator of the World, a Manhattan skin-flick theater charged with promoting obscenity by showing the highly publicized Deep Throat (TIME, Jan. 15). Tyler's decision may not make legal history-it may well be overturned on appeal to a higher court -but it was certainly noteworthy for its literary style. Although the judge found the film had "no idea worthy of protection," he did feel it to be worth 35 pages of outraged opinion, salted with quotes from Margaret Mead, D.H. Lawrence and Dr. Benjamin Spock, condemning in detail each...