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...report could prove to be a best seller partly because of a straight- faced 300-page section that provides graphic descriptions of sex scenes and no-expletives-deleted excerpts of steamy dialogue from such movies as Deep Throat and Debbie Does Dallas. In addition, it gives a clinical accounting of pictures in magazines like Tri-Sexual Lust, along with a list of 2,370 film titles and 725 book titles ranging from Horny Holy Roller Family to Thoroughly Amorous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sex Busters | 7/21/1986 | See Source »

...most beguiling, self-help books are in greatest demand: The One Minute Manager, In Search of Excellence, 21 Days to Stop Smoking. On occasion, more calorific titles come into earshot: Totally Lewd Limericks, How to Make Love to a Man (prefaced by the warning "This tape contains explicit and graphic language which may be considered offensive"). The voices on the talking books may be stars, such as Michael York (Anna Karenina), Michael Learned (The Scarlet Letter) and Jason Robards (Anatomy of an Illness), or such authors as Ann Beattie, John Updike and Eudora Welty, reading from their own works. Even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Heard Any Good Books Lately? | 7/21/1986 | See Source »

Clive (Remo Airaldi) the patriarch of the family who is given to waxing eloquent about the greatness of the British empire, watches over his family with an eagle eye while also protecting his neighbor the "spirited" Mrs. Saunders (Lisa Peers). In one overly graphic scene, Clive's solicitousness of Mrs. Saunders entails under-the-skirt oral sex. But Betty (Daniel Luke Zelman), Clive's wife, is not exactly pure either. Harry Bagley (Christian Kanuth), a dashing explorer, comes to visit and sample his friend Clive's family life and wife...

Author: By Shari Rudavsky, | Title: Get Off My Cloud | 7/1/1986 | See Source »

...muralist. But his strength as a draftsman on the large scale can easily be assessed from the cartoons for the Detroit Industry frescoes. A drawing like Figure Representing the Black Race has a formal strength to match its chthonic allegorical power; it makes you realize what levels of graphic sophistication lay beneath the populist surface. Such is Rivera at his best, but even at his worst the man's kitsch and bad taste have an orotund wholeheartedness that seems endearing. His mock-surrealist landscapes of the 1940s, together with some of his more contrived social portraits, are rubbish, but they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Tintoretto of the Peons | 6/9/1986 | See Source »

...town's principal activities. Standing the myth of the American West on its head is % not a new trick. But this time out, Dexter performs it with unusual skill, grace and glee, particularly in his presentation of Calamity Jane. No act of violence or natural appetite passes without a graphic description. This is Blazing Saddles for grownups...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bookends: Jun. 2, 1986 | 6/2/1986 | See Source »

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