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...hardly looks troublesome these days, this odd, '30s fortress with the Greek-echo name. In September 1971, Attica put hell on display for the nation. There are no signs of a riot today. The shock to one's system lies simply in the place itself, its main wall rising 30 ft. around 53 acres in the middle of dead-quiet upstate greenery. The wall is gray gray. Nothing in nature, including a rock, could be that color. Guards say the wall goes down 30 ft. in spots so as to hold fast in the quicksand. At intervals along...
...homosexual men. Most are Caucasians in their 30s and 40s with a college education, incomes averaging $20,000, a history of prior infection with mononucleosis and venereal disease, and a sex life that has included many partners, more than 500 in several cases...
...intravenous-drug abusers, also in their 30s, but usually black or Hispanic, heterosexual, and with a high school education at most. Of this group, 19 are women...
...next 60 years, the movies would shape and reflect the evolving form of this new woman. The smart working-girl heroines of '30s comedy ? Carole Lombard, Barbara Stanwyck, Rosalind...
...bazooka buxomness of Jane Russell, Marilyn Monroe and Jayne Mansfield marked a reaction against equality; here was the milkmaid as sultry pinup. Now the hourglass is shattered. Says George Hurrell, the portrait photographer who for 60 years has celebrated Hollywood's full-figured stars: "In the '30s everything was round. It gave a body shape and shadow. Today, actresses are rid of hips and thighs and even busts...