Word: storefronts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...From its storefront office on 9th Avenue in New York, the organization tries to educate people about the hard-core pornographic culture many of them, especially women, never see: how its violent and misleading images of women filter down into popular culture like record and fashion advertising; how these images promote stereotypes about female sexuality; and how pornography encourages male violence toward women. WAP members quote studies which claim that more than half of all child rapes are committed by men who say they are "trying out" techniques they saw in hard-core magazines and books...
...scene: a seedy storefront in New York City's Times Square district. Inside a tawdry slide show is under way. The brutal image of a woman being raped flashes onto the screen, then another of a woman in the throes of masochistic ecstasy as she is strangled by her lover. Still other pictures show women being mutilated and even killed...
...paper's own backyard was a national story. The Light was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for its investigative articles about the activities of Synanon, the controversial drug-rehabilitation group with headquarters six miles away. Out-of-town journalists quickly descended on the paper's storefront office in Point Reyes Station (pop. 420) to interview the Light's owners, Cathy, 34, and David Mitchell, 35. Armed with Stanford journalism degrees and experience on small papers elsewhere, the Mitchells bought the Light four years ago for "under $50,000." Ironically, their Pulitzer-the gold medal for public service...
...psychological counseling program, initially costing about $10 million a year, to be conducted in storefront offices across the country. The plan, first proposed by Cranston, has been passed by the Senate three times, but not by the House, because it previously did not get strong enough Administration backing...
City Councilor Kevin Crane '72 said yesterday he asked Harvard officials for the space, which would become necessary if the city decides to demolish the branch library and build a new one. City inspectors last week condemned the branch, which is located on a storefront on Huron Ave, and owned by the Roman Catholic archdiocese of Boston, saying it was unsafe...