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...Recalls Hecht: "A woman in Kansas ordered Joseph Wambaugh's The Choirboys, thinking it must be about a church picnic. She soon let us know what she thought about the language and sex." B.O.T.'s catalogue now gives an XX rating for tapes of Anaïs Nin's Delta of Venus and The Hite Report. But even the lustiest prose is underplayed. Actor Dan Lazar reads My Wicked, Wicked Ways, Errol Flynn's spicy autobiography, in the vocal equivalent of Muzak. Says Hecht: "We don't mind a slight inflection at tense or emotional...
...retreat from the old dogmatism is welcome, any hint of improvisation. "Gray is all theory," wrote Goethe, "but green is the golden tree of life." That, weirdly enough, was one of Le nin's favorite quotations. The striking Polish workers seem a lit tle farther than he from theory and a little closer to the green tree. In one sense they are behaving in a purely Marxian fash ion: proletarians rising up against the oppressors who contra the means of production. They have very far to go. The strikers now seem oddly like 19th century workers in Western Europe...
Firstly, his information on Lu Hsiu-lien is flawed. The publishing company (Pioneer Publishing House) for feminist literature that she established is still in business, contrary to Jablin's statement that it was closed by the government. The telephone hot-line for women ("Pao Hu Nin") set up by Lu does not now exist, but in light of Jablin's mistake on the publishing company it seems unlikely that the government curtailed its operation, especially since in was well-received by the public. Jablin's remark about "underground" opposition activities by Lu is cryptic if not misleading. Certainly...
...trying to use [the visit] for antistate purposes." The Soviet press ran a two-sentence news report. Most of the satellite nations followed Moscow's lead, but Radio Free Europe, the BBC and Voice of America filled the gap, beaming extensive radio coverage of the visit. Yugoslavia's weekly NIN remarked: "It is hard to tell where pastoral work stops and politics begins," while Albania's party daily fumed: "The old desires of all the oppressors, the slaveowners, religionists and Popes to rule in peace are now being crushed" by the working masses...
...Nin gives us a story about a frigid wife ("The Maja") who is finally awakened by watching her artist husband make love to a nude painting of her. But all we are told is "Maria's ... controlled sensuality flared up, free for the first time." And then what...