Word: tangos
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...from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where a social-dance class that began during the semester break attracted 109 nostalgic students instead of the expected 20 to 30, all eager to learn not the latest rock steps but the dances their parents once did: the rumba, jitterbug, foxtrot, waltz, tango, Charleston, even the polka. Says Instructor Harry Brauser: "These dances serve as a contact point between generations. Kids are now interested in what their parents experienced; everything their parents did is no longer looked down upon...
...that 1973 was such a remarkable year. There were the hits (Deep Throat) the bombs (Lost Horizon), the sensations (Last Tango in Paris) and the sensation-mongers (The Exorcist), the uppers (Happy New Year) and the downers (Slither), the hype-mades (The Long Goodbye), the homemades (Joyce at 34) and the readymades (Paper Moon and The Paper Chase--real paste-up jobs), the libbers (A Doll's House), the lobbers (Bang the Drum Slowly), and the cops and robbers movies playing red-light green-light with the good-guy hot seat--clearly the list eludes an all-embracing label...
...Last Tango in Paris. "A movie that people will be arguing about for as long as there are movies. Bernardo Bertolucci and Marlon Brando have altered the face of an art form." Well. Pauline Kael started it all with these words, and it was inevitable that parody would flourish to a point where Buchwald could talk of a dumb movie about the Parisian housing shortage and two apartment-hunters who find a rundown flat and spend a lot of time rolling around trying to measure it for a carpet. But it's not typical for anyone to skip joyously unaffected...
Although the pornographic films I've seen thus far, both hard and soft core, have been quite boring to me, this need not always be the case. Somewhere between the extremes of Last Tango in Paris and The Devil in Miss Jones lies a vast, as yet untapped potential for quality erotic cinema. However, it is not because of this that I am vigorously on the side of the civil libertarians. Intrinsic to most censorship arguments is the supposition that the putative censors are morally superior to pornography's patrons. It is a form of elitism, as dogmatic and offensive...
...deal with the problem. The zipless fuck is the platonic ideal in the newest sense of the word: you meet a strange male, your clothes fall off like flower petals, you come together in one soulbending mindbodyfuck, faceless, nameless, no ties, no commitments. It is to be a Last Tango, quick and compressed like a dream. (Erica Jong likes the bigger than life words, the exaggerated scene. Life for her people is one big high. If she doesn't dream big, she doesn't dream--when she dreams about getting laid, she pictures the Empire State building.) So you think...