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...dictionary-format text (supplemented by a Portnoyesque glossary of slang) similarly blends frankness with a pervading concern for mutual tenderness and respect in expressions of sexuality. The definition of brothel, for instance, is a deft putdown: "a house where people can rent sexual partners." Nudity describes the body not only as being "sexually attractive" but also as "vulnerable and in need of protection." Chastity, far from connoting abstinence, involves "respect for the sexual partner as an individual, not as a sexual object to be used at convenience." There is also compassionate treatment of the difficult subject of homosexuality...
...extorted by Jonathan Wiold, the Thief-Taker General (Peachum in Gay's play), ends up in Newgate Prison, escapes, is recaptured, hanged, then torn to pieces by souvenir hunters. Campbell's play is episodic, fast-moving, and filled with murky black dialogue. Senelick has expanded upon the episodic format of the text, so that time and the fairly simple plot are frequently interrupted by little extrapolative scenes. This is a hazardous technique, for such material must have an independent value great enough to warrant stopping the action of the play. A ballet parody between a tutu-ed, gum-chewing thief...
Davis told reporters yesterday that Mayday leaders would meet this weekend to decide the format for a national antiwar conference "some time in the next several weeks." The conference, which will probably take place in Milwaukee, Wise, will make plans for continued resistance against the government until the war is over, Davis said...
...establishment magazine, how well have Manshell, Campbell, Huntington, and company succeeded? Two issues of Foreign Policy have already come out, and one more is in the works. Since last October, circulation has grown from zero to just under six thousand, with about five thousand subscriptions. The physical format of the magazine, a long thin paperback, distinguishes it from its competitor. The editors have succeeded in introducing some fresh blood into their columns, although the first two issues have included such old warhorses as John Kenneth Galbraith, Stanley Hoffmann, and Huntington...
Screw's rags-to-riches story has been one of continuous legal troubles, but until now none of them had forced any change in format. Last month a three-judge panel in New York City's Criminal Court found it obscene, and Screw is taming itself a trifle in a sort of legal lobotomy...