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...with The Journal of Sex Research and Havelock Ellis' class texts on sexuality, are other books. Bound volumes of Playboy sit quietly next to The Groupsex Tapes and Great Bordellos of the World: An Illustrated History. Others have titles like Meat: How Men Look, Act, Walk, Talk, Dress, Undress, Taste and Smell...
...that is eagerly being filled by the nation's 50,000 massage therapists (masseur and masseuse are outre). And they deliver. If health club appointments and at-home visits are inconvenient, don't worry. Therapists will come to the office. No time or inclination for a full-hour full-undress manipulation? Then how about a minimassage? It is brief (ten to 15 minutes), thoroughly proper (clothes stay on) and cheap (a tune-up costs $10 to $15, while a complete overhaul...
Some people get around that problem by using a coat or a parent as a dressing curtain. But many other shoppers say they are too shy to undress in a room full of strangers and so they just take chances and wait till they get home to see if it fits...
...case against interviews with writers is historic: they exploit personalities, expose their subjects in verbal undress, without their styles hitched up, and they traffic in anecdote and gossip. This is also the case in favor of such interviews. And why not? How else would a faithful reader learn- as he does in Writers at Work-that Elizabeth Bishop, while a student at Vassar, ate from a bedside pot of Roquefort cheese at night to stimulate dreams for her notebooks, and once spent a night in a tree outside her dormitory? Or know about Carson McCullers' visiting Elizabeth Bowen...
...that Cheeta the chimp will skitter on to provide not only the movie's best acting but its only conscious comic relief as well. All of that was admittedly fun, as if the cast of a suburban sitcom had been dropped down in the African hinterlands, told to undress and act natural. But Burroughs, that dauntlessly prolific pop fictioneer, had something more important on his mind when he dreamed up Tarzan: nothing less than the creation of a mythic figure who would encapsulate the Edwardian age's anguish over the way the virtues of the primitive life were...