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...pornography issue represents the lynch pin for issues ranging from homosexual rights to marital rape legislation, the pornographic image represents only the surface of an entire sexual mentality underlying social behavior and attitudes. The F.A.C.T. reprint of an L.A. Times editorial points out, "the target should be the coercion, not the sexual nature of the image." Why not, perhaps, both...
During interview segments, other Beatnik writers do not deny Kerouac's status as "King of the Beat Generation." Kerouac seems to be the hardest to pin down. He doesn't have the grisly panache of Burroughs or the self-conscious religiousity of Ginsberg. There is a certain instability, an un-disciplined heart to Kerouac's work and life...
That pursuit continues for the immigrant in America, and it never stops. But it comes to rest at a certain moment. The moment is hard to pin down, but it occurs perhaps when the immigrant's double life and double vision converge toward a single state of mind. When the old life, the old home fade into a certain unreality: places one merely visits, in fact or in the mind, practicing the tourism of memory. It occurs when the immigrant learns his ultimate lesson: above all countries, America, if loved, returns love...
Millions around the world watched their television sets or listened to their radios as the horrific drama unfolded. "He has pulled a hand-grenade pin and is ready to blow up the aircraft if he has to. We must, I repeat, we must land at Beirut. We must land at Beirut. No alternative." After much delay, the curious, grudging reply of the Beirut control tower: "Very well. Land. Land quietly. Land quietly." Then another desperate plea: "They are beating the passengers. They are threatening to kill the passengers. We want fuel now. Immediately. Five minutes at most...
...wanted was a skyjacking crisis on their hands, and so they blocked the airport runway with buses and other obstacles. But the terrorists and their captive pilot were having none of it. Demanded the pilot: "They are beating up passengers. We must land in Beirut. He has pulled the pin of the grenade. We must land. He is ready to blow up the plane...