Word: tropics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
...Singer's best friend is Henry Miller, who sent him The Tropic of Cancer in Hebrew: yet Singer is critical of the humor in Philip Roth's Portnoy's Complaint. "The humor which is there is not real humor." he said. "It's not a humor which comes from character or from situation. It's the humor of embarrassment. This humor of revealing things which are to be covered has become important in this generation, but it's not going to last because how much can you uncover? Once the toilet and the masturbation are already in the literature...
Jackass Penguins. Bathed in soft blue-green light, the five-story building's cavernous interior immediately evokes images of the world of water. Its 75 exhibits represent the full range of environments-fresh and salt, from arctic to tropic. Most of the ground floor is occupied by a large freshwater pool, swarming with such fish as gars, carps, catfish and sturgeons. It also contains an open enclave where several otters frolic in and out of the water. A few steps away are the first of 70 small tanks containing such varied and intriguing species as the colorful little clownfish...
...when he published Tropic of Cancer, Miller could justly claim that he was 20 years ahead of his time. The film version, unhappily, is as many years behind-one more boozy, verbose old victim of the Lost Generation...