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...their 13-0 season, the game against No. 2-rated Notre Dame. There were 11,343 exuberant Irish fans to be dealt with in South Bend, and a young, physically powerful Notre Dame team with nine victories and no defeats so far this winter. More important, there was a throat-constricting memory: U.C.L.A.'S last loss had been inflicted by Notre Dame in that same South Bend fieldhouse just three years earlier...
Bennet in the fall of 1972 was diagnosed as having cancer of the throat. For four months he underwent cobalt radiation treatments at the Massachusetts General Hospital. In February 1973 Bennet's doctors discovered that his tumor had been arrested...
...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...
...Webster's. Out of court, no longer are we asking "is it pornography?" but "why not pornography?" The courtroom is another story, however, since legal precedent supports the censorship of pornography in principle (Roth v. U.S., 1957). In the past, in court, the battle assumed absurdist dimensions: was Deep Throat "educational" in nature? Or did it have "redeeming social value?" The civil libertarians were put (perhaps too willingly) in the virtually ridiculous position of finding social excuses for the pornography in question. This method of defense was doomed to failure, as it did in fact fail with Deep Throat...
...knock-down-drag-out fight, which I expect will last for years to come. They've no choice, from their viewpoint, for this is the last bastion. It will do civil libertarians no good to cry "But if we censor here, where will it stop? Today, Deep Throat, tomorrow, free expression in the arts." The censors will cry equally plaintively, "But if we don't censor here, where will it stop? Today, Deep Throat, tomorrow, the destruction of our civilization." As befits a subject with sexual connotations, the arguments tend to become impassioned...