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...aiming a Polaroid camera at a mob that included Dick Cavett, Lee Radziwill, Truman Capote, George Plimpton, Woody Allen and tie-dyed Zsa Zsa Gabor. Out of another giant cake popped Warhol Protege Gerry Williams outfitted in two black pasties and one black garter, her costume for an unusually explicit erotic dance. Then came more gifts for Jagger: a silver cross, a photo of a naked lady and a silver snuffbox for cocaine. Someone asked Bob Dylan whether the Stones phenomenon marked the end of rock 'n' roll or the beginning of something new. Resplendent in aviator glasses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 7, 1972 | 8/7/1972 | See Source »

...child's only fascination is her foster mother's garden, with its ambience of witchery, herbs, bullock's-eyes, dead frogs, dog droppings. Sharp is too intelligent to make explicit any metaphorical claims. But her solution, as the society mother is about to take her natural child back to Manhattan's concrete canyons, is a beautifully delicate stroke of paganism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Pagan Touch | 8/7/1972 | See Source »

...future." He contracted with a California publisher to import 10,000 copies of a grossly prurient quarterly called Trio, which billed itself rather improbably as "a cultural, scientific and sociological publication." Yet even though Nakata had the printers take an air brush to some of the more explicit photographs, Japanese officialdom was outraged. First, customs authorities forced Nakata to have 37 "undesirable" spots in each copy daubed with ink before they would allow the magazine into the country. Then the Tokyo police confiscated the magazine and indicted Nakata on charges that it was "damaging to the sanctity of decent home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: The Decline of Sex | 7/31/1972 | See Source »

Nothing gets gritty in the film except the language, and then most of the grit has been taken out. Roth's book made the sex explicit and the characterizations vague, often openly begging a personal response from the reader. Lehman's movie does the reverse, making the characterizations explicit and the sex removed. The sets are overit and uninteresting. And little of the Jewish ambience is evoked visually; being Jewish to Lehman means the mother wearing a mezzuzah, being Gentile means a Catholic hooker wearing a cross...

Author: By Barry Levine, | Title: Protnoy's Complaint | 7/11/1972 | See Source »

...paintings, is a kind of analytical silence: a stillness that mediates between the logic of Descartes and the mysticism of Pascal, both of whom were La Tour's approximate contemporaries. To see the candle flame play on the faces of La Tour's models, rendering them both explicit and transcendent, is to witness a profound meditation on the limits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: An Analytical Stillness | 7/3/1972 | See Source »

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