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...first - three times. As Roger Ebert notes in his 1973 essay on Meyer (reprinted in the excellent anthology "Kings of the Bs"), "each of his three largest-grossing independent films was the first of its type. 'Teas' was the first uninhibited American nudie; 'Lorna' (1964) was the first fully scripted sex-violence-and-nudity movie to attempt to escape the limited booking of the skin-flick genre; and 'Vixen' (1968) was the first American skin flick intended to appeal to women as well as to men, and aimed at bookings in respectable first-run situations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thanks for the Mammaries | 8/2/2002 | See Source »

...however, British psychiatrist Dr. Lorna Wing published an influential paper that revived interest in Asperger's work. The disorder Asperger identified, Wing observed, appeared in many ways to be a variant of Kanner's autism, so that the commonalities seemed as important as the differences. As a result, researchers now believe that Asperger and Kanner were describing two faces of a highly complicated and variable disorder, one that has its source in the kaleidoscope of traits encoded in the human genome. Researchers also recognize that severe autism is not always accompanied by compensatory intellectual gifts and is, in fact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Secrets of Autism | 5/6/2002 | See Source »

...Lorna Sage is known as an influential literary critic and college professor. This memoir, prompted by the death of Sage’s mother, travels through the author’s young life, attempting to make connections between the three generations of family that mold her into a woman. The book struggles, but improves as it progresses, to create a believably authentic portrait of Sage’s life...

Author: By Sarah L. Solorzano, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Sins of the Fathers | 4/5/2002 | See Source »

...Lorna Sage...

Author: By Sarah L. Solorzano, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Sins of the Fathers | 4/5/2002 | See Source »

...Institute for Equality in Marriage, founded by Lorna Wendt, encourages all women to prepare a prenuptial agreement even if there are no assets. The idea is to put in writing that the marriage is an equal partnership. If your prospective husband doesn't see it that way, you might as well know early...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It Pays To Know | 7/24/2000 | See Source »

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