Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Boston's officially approved "combat zone" in the Washington Street area is designed to contain the spread of "adult" entertainment, but the city also has a conservative district attorney and an activist vice squad. In the past several months police raided every porn moviehouse and bookstore within the combat zone. In one shop they ripped out the minimovie machines, carting them off as evidence. "The cops want to show they're there," said Attorney Morris Goldings, Boston's leading obscenity lawyer, who acquired some 15 new clients in the crackdown. "Every guy knows that one day he is going...
...studies in the spread of the sex business...
...diluted form, the bondage and S-M themes show up in the popular culture, from Alex Comfort's Joy of Sex, which recommends lighthearted bondage and spanking, to rock lyrics, ads and recent fashion magazine illustrations. Last December Vogue magazine featured a 12-page fashion spread showing a man alternately nuzzling and beating the model. One sequence pictures the woman being battered off her feet in her $140 John Anthony jumpsuit. Says the porn paper San Francisco Ball of the trend: " 'Flog you!' may become the mating call...
Furious over what they labeled an attempt to "take over our holy places," Arab students in the West Bank city of Nablus abandoned their classes and took to the streets, singing pro-P.L.O. songs. Student strikes spread to other towns. Arab businesses closed. Six mayors and five city councils of important towns on the West Bank resigned...
...most remarkable recitals in the long history of New York's Carnegie Hall. Ever so gingerly Pianist Artur Rubinstein-at 89, four years older than Carnegie-was blowing his own horn. The huge hands (he can span a twelfth, which is an octave plus four white notes) were spread imploringly on the table. The gray-blue eyes gazed boyishly across the hotel room where his wife of 43 years, Aniela, his Nela, was reading on the sofa. In the inquiring way that some husbands have with wives they depend on, he was at once asking for confirmation...