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...dictionary-format text (supplemented by a Portnoyesque glossary of slang) similarly blends frankness with a pervading concern for mutual tenderness and respect in expressions of sexuality. The definition of brothel, for instance, is a deft putdown: "a house where people can rent sexual partners." Nudity describes the body not only as being "sexually attractive" but also as "vulnerable and in need of protection." Chastity, far from connoting abstinence, involves "respect for the sexual partner as an individual, not as a sexual object to be used at convenience." There is also compassionate treatment of the difficult subject of homosexuality...
Skezag (a slang term for heroin) is a relentless portrait of three junkies who shoot up in front of the camera and drift off into their heroin fantasies of incoherent hostility and depression. Before they do, Skezag records a long conversation between Film Makers Joel Freedman and Philip Messina and a smooth-talking hustler named Wayne, who claims that he is not really addicted. Two friends of his eventually enter the claustrophobic scene: Sonny, quiet and morose, and Angel, who talks a political line. Casually and inevitably they all take heroin. Returning to the ghetto, they realize anew they have...
...Astaire dance or the froth of a Lubitsch comedy; it is blind to Depression breadlines. It catches the shapely legs of Rita Hayworth in 1944's hot pants but neglects the 500,000 U.S. war casualties of that year. It is amused by the crew cuts and slang of 1953 but forgets the anti-Communist hysteria and the fear that followed detonation of Russia's first hydrogen bomb...
...decided to bank on Britain's Rolls-Royce, Ltd. to deliver engines for its 256-passenger L-1011 TriStar super jet for a price too good to be true. Both the C-5A and the Rolls-Royce engine turned out to be riddled with "unk-unks," industry slang for "unknown unknowns." Last October, after cost overruns on the C-5A had enraged Congress, the Air Force reduced its order from 115 to 81, which resulted in a loss to Lockheed of $200 million. Worse yet, Rolls-Royce collapsed under the burden of unexpected costs on its contract, leaving Lockheed with...
...prominently displayed, controversial article by Norman Mailer in the current Harper's (TIME, Feb. 22). Mailer takes up most of the issue with his caustic treatment of Women's Liberation in general and Kate Millett in particular. The article is loaded with explicit sexual references and slang more familiar to college bull sessions than to Harper's. Morris knew he was taking a chance by printing it. Running the Mailer piece, he says, was "the biggest editorial risk of my life, but I didn't think it would...