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Spot is for what he reported discovering in some women in the course of research into birth control methods in the 1940s: a patch of erectile tissue in the front wall of the vagina, directly behind the pubic bone, that acts something like a second clitoris. G spot is for the new book about that odd finding, published amid considerable commercial hubbub: a first printing of 150,000 hardback copies by Holt, Rinehart and Winston, and deals with six book clubs...
...present. With a vengeance. "I am not pessimistic, I am not obsessed by death, I don't believe in fatalism," Thompson insists. "I am an outside observer, like a journalist." Nevertheless, these observations seem drawn from inside himself. The album's title cut, for example, is a bone-chilling evocation of metropolitan madness, a song full of abrupt violence and long shadows of empty city streets. It's Just the Motion is about drowning, literally and figuratively, slipping off from life at the bottom...
...sounds are normal. Late yesterday afternoon, a car bomb exploded a few blocks from the hotel, killing two, shooting a gray-white pillar of smoke into the sky, which turned black before vanishing. Destruction is everywhere. An apartment house on a corner is cracked in the middle like a bone. It sags and heaves. Fragments of cement and wire hang from the structure at impossible angles. A carton of unopened Pepsis rests on a slab, waiting to fall. There is a hole in the building where the garage was; it gives the place the look of an ancient cave...
Over a period of ten days, the scientists turned up eight bone fragments from two different individuals. One, discovered last November by White, is the upper part of a left femur, or thighbone, about 6 in. long. A skilled anatomist, White was able to judge not only the was able to judge not only the creature's height but also its sex and age: male, about 16 or 17 years old. From markings showing where the muscles were attached to the bone, he also determined that this ancient teen-ager walked upright...
...other bones, uncovered about half a mile away from White's find, consist of seven skull fragments, all lying within 18 in. of one another. The discoverer was another expedition member, Leonard Krishtalka of Pittsburgh's Carnegie Museum. Remarkably, three of the fossils, including a frontal bone, which is especially useful in assessing the possible shape of the skull, easily fit together. The age of the bones was determined from radioactive dating of a layer of cindery volcanic debris near the fossils. The bones, declared Clark, are the oldest clearly identifiable hominid, or humanlike, skull fragments ever found...