Word: virginal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with his chic discoverers. Much more fun--as always in Waters' genially transgressive movies--are the rich portrayals of his fellow Baltimoreans, among them Christina Ricci's Laundromat Nazi, Mary Kay Place's fashion-forward thrift-shop owner and Jean Schertler's goofy grandma using a statue of the Virgin Mary to practice some pious ventriloquism. Check...
Among the characters are Stella-Virgin and Donatello-My-Wife, but Pudding staff said the authors began writing the script long before President Clinton's sex life was a national focus...
...retail, the selling of porn has become less lurid. Vivid is happy to peddle videotapes in a more Main Street manner through the Adam & Eve catalog, which is mailed to 2.5 million people a month, and Tower and Virgin record stores, where the "Vivid girls" have done signings. Castle Superstores, a chain of eight Wal-Mart-size outlets in the West, is trying to bring a sense of class to the business. By getting rid of peep shows and strippers, the Castle stores have been able to attract a clientele that is nearly 50% couples, much higher than...
...missing and turned herself in to face charges of promoting prostitution. Says Lorraine Weinlein, 71, a local who freely discusses her enterprising neighbor: "It's almost like a dream. You just don't expect this sort of thing." Who would? The sisters of the Monastery of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel live right around the corner...
Writing about being a virgin at 25, one woman helps the reader feel to what extent her virginity has controlled her life by filling her essay with passion. Another contributor, also writing about losing control of his life, he with the help of heroin, allows himself to take a tone that is cooler and more detached because his experience is more commonly expressed and understood. A black writer, examining the conflict he feels between his race and his middle class upbringing, writes his essay largely in the second person, thereby splitting himself in two so as to allow...