Word: virgination
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Brooklyn-bred Kimelman, 51, is chairman of the West Indies Corp., the biggest (annual sales: $18 million) import house in the Virgin Islands, his adopted home of more than two decades. As the islands' commissioner of commerce from 1961 to 1964, Kimelman was one of several businessmen who turned the U.S. possession from a sleepy haven of sand and sun into a tourist mecca. Since the islands are one of the two American free ports outside the U.S. (the other: Guam), the business of importing duty-free liquor, perfume and other goodies for tourists has grown fast. Kimelman...
...textile importer, Kimelman got into the liquor business through his father-in-law, who owned a rum distillery in Puerto Rico. Kimelman moved to St. Thomas after investing in the islands' earliest first-class resort hotel, the Virgin Isle, which he later leased on hugely favorable terms to Hilton. Kimelman and his brother-in-law acquired the distributorships of a number of name-brand liquors, including Cherry Heering, Grand Marnier and J & B Scotch. When the Johnson Administration tried to ease the nation's balance of payments deficit by chopping, from a gallon to a quart, the nontaxable...
...celebrated Ukiyo-e erotica of the era before the first Westerners arrived more than a century ago. In the 1700s and early 1800s, when the great samurai families ruled the peaceful, isolated island nation, Japanese artists celebrated sex in extraordinarily direct and sensual prints and woodcuts. Every well-bred virgin was given at least one graphically instructive makura-e (pillow picture) as part of her trousseau. "There was no hypocrisy," says Ukiyo-e Scholar Teruji Yoshida. "These artists dealt with the pleasures of sex as matter-of-factly as if they were dealing with other routine pleasures, like those...
...Church of Sinai, with 100 adherents. As does Rome, Orthodoxy believes in both church tradition and Scripture as the source of divine revelation, in the seven Christ-instituted sacraments, in the basic trinitarian doctrine formulated by the first seven ecumenical councils, and in the duty of reverence toward the Virgin Mary. But Orthodoxy rejects papal infallibility and permits married men to become priests, though only celibates can become bishops. Orthodoxy also makes a distinction between its churches and "Oriental" churches like the Armenian Church, which differ from them doctrinally on the nature of Christ but are sometimes confused with them...
...East Village with Ira the Junkie (Ira Siff) and Tracy (Tracy Moore), a slogan-shouting nobody. The three hail the blessings of unlicensed polyandry by singing "Now we understand the Trinity . . ." Lumbering home one night, Joan (Lee Guilliatt) meets a miniskirted doll (Essie Borden) who is-what else? -the Virgin Mary enjoying a one-day pass from Camp Paradise. The encounter makes a revolutionary of Joan, who goes to her preordained end while a cellmate giggles vacantly and the chorus sings a gospel hymn...