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...more. Most Japanese scholars trace the decline of Japanese pornography to the prewar era. It was then that the imperial government, in an attempt to focus the nation's energies on making war, not love, enacted Japan's first anti-obscenity laws. Later on, American G.I.s marched in with their pinups and introduced such shocking habits as handholding in public. Before long, the battle lines were drawn: a bureaucracy committed to the defense of a dated public prudery v. a society whose celebration of private sensuality has nonetheless produced, among other things, Japan's ubiquitous "sex drugstores...
...extends millions of miles outward from the sun. One of last week's projects was an effort to probe its outer reaches, the spawning ground of the solar wind. Another project was to analyze the spectral lines made in the corona by trace amounts of metals...
...black private eye who divides his time almost equally between brawls and bedrooms. Here, one of Shaft's fillies has a brother mixed up in the numbers racket. When the brother's storefront insurance office is bombed, the police find his body in the debris but no trace of the $250,000 that he and his partner had stashed in the company safe. Shaft starts to track the money down, a process that eventually involves him with some shady types from Downtown, some anxious cops and a bevy of slinky, mindlessly sexy playmates. Compared with last year...
When we move to Salvation Army headquarters, we find another group of characters, all of whom speak carefully nurtured low-class accents. Phillip Kerr is outstanding as the mustachioed cockney Bill Walker--swaggering, snarling, pugnacious, unrepenteat. His performance is all the more impressive for managing to obliterate every trace of his work as Octavius in the two Shakespeare plays. As the starving Peter, Joseph Maher is eloquent whether silent or speaking...
Discovered in the late afternoon, lugging a bale of hay into his new horse barn, the author bears no trace of the morning's necktie. He is fairly tall, fairly well on into his forties (6 ft., 48 years). He looks like a prep-school teacher, and was once; he established the religion department at Exeter, and taught there for several years. Buechner has eight horses on the payroll, apparently the minimum for a city man who moves to the country with a wife and three young daughters. The girls also have a goat, a tribe of chickens...