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...Smut Peddlers...
...question here (for those readers who have been ignoring Cincinnati since its heinous transgressions of the will of God in the world series last fall) is freedom of the press, the press being a smut magazine which manages to offend more people than all its competitors combined. But more interesting than any of the legal issues raised by the conviction is the ambivalent nature of the anger which surrounds it. Everyone who has voiced public disapproval of the court decision, from Nat Hentoff and Nora Ephron to the New York Times, has prefaced his comments with a strong statement deploring...
...journey from Ulysses to Hustler involves more than a move from literature to smut, from words to images. It involves the transition from the preoccupation of an educated minority to the everyday fantasies of the blue-collar majority. Hustler was launched by a man without any formal education...Now it is the "servants"--the busboys, the farmers, truck drivers and men on the assembly line--who are on the receiving end of censorship, whose erotic tastes are repulsive to a bewildered literary establishment...
Cincinnati is a city blessed with more than its share of good restaurants and bad weather, and less than its share of smut. That latter distinction is largely the work of Hamilton County Prosecutor Simon Leis Jr., 42, who has pursued local sex-shop and massage-parlor operators with the zeal of a Torquemada...
...budget of $200,000, Carte Blanche finally opened. What the raised curtain revealed, reported TIME Correspondent Lawrence Malkin, was some parts that could be called cousins of Calcutta and others that amounted to "a granddaddy of a snappy nightclub revue, liberated to let a lot of old-fashioned smut happily hang out." In short, Carte Blanche works best when the 14-member cast has its clothes on. That turns out to be most of the time. True, the opening scene has them emerging frontally naked from behind shiny, plastic drapes, but within seconds their bare bodies become moving screens...