Word: tropicalism
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...Tropic of Cancer, his first published work, was a shout of exultation. Miller, emerging free from the shackles of superfluous duties to society, was suddenly beset by a tremendous hunger for the sensuous life available in Paris. His book asserted the joy of the present and laid the foundation for a lifelong detachment from the ruin of a material universe, a spiritual self-sufficiency which bordered on solipsism...
...exhibition series in Hawaii had been a time to loll on the beach and sip a Mai Tai or two. This season, game or no game, Sharman hustled the team off each morning to a rickety, dimly lit high school gymnasium to sweat for three hours in the tropic heat. "I went to Hawaii with a tan," says Jerry West, "and I came home without...
Atop 5,820-ft. Mount Ulu Kali, the tropic air turns chill at night and lights from the distant capital of Kuala Lumpur glitter like diamonds. But visitors to the new 200-room Genting Highlands Hotel could hardly care less about the breathtaking view. Since the resort opened in May, thousands of eager customers have driven up a misty, winding mountain road for a headier kind of excitement-gambling in Malaysia's first legalized casino...
...sexual humor and energy rendered impotent. It is difficult to imagine why the U.S. Customs Bureau seized Quiet Days in Clichy (a federal judge later declared it prurience-free). As a matter of fact, the author might have a case suing for damages. What was true of the film Tropic of Cancer (TIME, March 2) is truer still of Quiet Days: Miller should be obscene but not hurt...
OBSCENITY. In recent years the court has held that First Amendment guarantees of free speech protect a wide range of material, from Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer to potboilers like Lust Pool and Shame Agent. Here, too, Burger would back off. In a dissent from a ruling that the film I, a Woman is not obscene, Burger argued that the court "should not inflexibly deny to each of the states the power to adopt and enforce its own standards...