Word: wayes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...scene: a seedy storefront in New York City's Times Square district. Inside a tawdry slide show is under way. The brutal image of a woman being raped flashes onto the screen, then another of a woman in the throes of masochistic ecstasy as she is strangled by her lover. Still other pictures show women being mutilated and even killed...
Perhaps the basic question is whether pornography really incites men to violence against women, or does the opposite-lets them sublimate their aggressive sexual fantasies in a relatively harmless way. The 1970 report of the President's Commission on Obscenity and Pornography implied that it did indeed serve as a useful social outlet. But since then, at least one of the study's authors is having second thoughts. Says University of Pennsylvania Sociologist Marvin Wolfgang: "The weight of evidence [now] suggests that the portrayal of violence tends to encourage the use of physical aggression among people...
...Elise on the cut-off top of a 55-gal. oil drum? Step right up. A conga drummer with a silver earring in one nostril and a red gem in the other, or a classical guitarist in top hat, tails and tennis shoes? Right this way. String quartets, punk rockers, brass quintets, bagpipers, country crooners, dixieland stompers, ad hoc duos of every string, woodwind and percussive persuasion? Just around the corner...
...seriousness when Shanti belts out blues or scats like Ella Fitzgerald on Satin Doll. The couple were married nine days after meeting at a crafts fair in Oregon a year and a half ago. With the coming of hot weather in New Orleans, they decided to work their way west through fairs and markets and end up in Portland, where they have a cabin. When last glimpsed, they were living in their car, trying to raise money for a carburetor and tire...
...Pyramid. And no, Susan Stamberg is not out to make a deal, or even to see if the price is right. She is co-host of All Things Considered, surely the most literate, trenchant and entertaining news program on radio. Gimme Shelter! was typical of the show: an imaginative way of commenting on the current scene, in this case, federal retirement tax policy...