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74 Essay Everyone learned to kiss from the movies. Now the danger of AIDS troubles actors. Must the movies find new signals of passion?
Still, movie kisses have been one of the educational advances of the 20th century. Even the best scholars had something to learn, although in these matters academics are generally among the last to know. Early in the century, the Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics published an entry on customs of...
In 1959 he came to the U.S., and the following year he took a job as a driver for Roger Corman, America's master of the cheap and quick. Soon promoted to assistant to the director, he learned everything he needed and then returned home in 1962. Globus, who had...
Everyone learned how to kiss from the movies. It is difficult to imagine what people did before Edison for instruction in the subject. They blundered through, no doubt, across centuries of bruised lips and chipped teeth, and the clumsy lunges that end with noses banging, or the woman accidentally mummphing...
Felipe had developed a crush on Donna Ashlock, 14, a freckle-faced student who worked as a waitress at the Tiger's Den Drive-in. "He loved to be around her," recalled one of Donna's friends. Last summer Felipe dated her, just once. Shortly before Christmas, he learned that...