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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...genres combined to create 70s porn. One, shown in theaters, was the soft-core sex film: basically a low-budget fiction feature with heavy-breathing innuendo, simulated lovemaking and the occasional, calculated exposure of skin (They were called skin flicks.) The genre boomed in 1959 with the smash success of Russ Meyer's nudie comedy The Immoral Mr. Teas, which cued a five-year run of so-called nudie-cuties. Says prime sexploitation showman Dave Friedman: "Nudie-cuties were very rigid in their construction -you had the boy/girl scene, the girl/girl scene, the orgy scene, and then the kiss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: When Porno Was Chic | 3/29/2005 | See Source »

...painful; it reminded you of Ian too much," explains Sumner. He adds that the group needed to prove it could make it on its own living merits: "I didn't fancy being an Ian Curtis impersonator, really." That was never a danger. The 1983 song Blue Monday proved a smash hit with clubgoers - becoming the biggest-selling 12-in. single ever - and New Order further anchored themselves in the club scene as shareholders of Manchester's famous Hacienda club. Radio-friendly dance hits sent the band's appeal global...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Higher Order | 3/27/2005 | See Source »

...clocks, weathermen or juries in Basin City--Sin City to you. It's always night, always raining and every dispute is resolved personally, often by a bullet to the groin. Men are the walking wounded, with scarred faces and psyches. Women are trophies, to fight for, possess or smash. Noir doesn't get gnarlier than in the corpse operas of Frank Miller's graphic novels or Robert Rodriguez's ultra-vivid movie of three of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Miller's Double Crossing | 3/27/2005 | See Source »

...week later in the triple-overtime win over Mercyhurst in the first round of the NCAA tournament, Boe stopped 56 shots to smash her total from the previous weekend...

Author: By Gabriel M. Velez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Boe Steps Up to Plate for Crimson | 3/25/2005 | See Source »

...Smashed has been a smash hit in the one month it’s been on the market, making author Koren Zailckas, 24, an instant celebrity. The book has garnered praise from reviewers ranging from Entertainment Weekly to conservative New York Times columnist William Safire. Zailckas has appeared on ABC’s “Good Morning America” and last month drew an audience of more than 100 students when she spoke at Boston University. Her autobiography is not just for college kids, or even binge drinkers: it speaks to anyone who has ever experienced insecurity...

Author: By Joelle Hobeika, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Perils, Thrills of a Smashed Life | 3/10/2005 | See Source »

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