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Hamill had broken a time-honored tradition in the world of figure-skating--she had put the rap on international judging. There was no doubt about...
Wertmuller fashions the film so that even the paradoxes double back on each other. Pasqualino is a murderer and rap ist. But he is a rogue, too, winning be cause of his shabby, transparent charm...
Both O'Neill and Rhodes were partially right. The Congress that adjourned in a scramble of legislation just before Christmas was involved in more than a classic confrontation between a liberal Democratic majority and a conservative Republican President. From the rap of the first gavel last January, Congress was striving to regain lost ground in its continuing power struggle with the Executive. Simultaneously, reformers were at work in both chambers-particularly in the House-trying to liberalize and open up congressional procedures...
They have names like Ecstasy Unlimited, the Velvet Touch and This Is Heaven. They are in business mostly as "massage parlors," but when police try to shut them down, they squirm into some new designation-rap parlors, escort services, schools of sexual technique, nude encounter groups and even nude weight-lifting centers...
...York City, which has some 70 parlors in Manhattan, may soon try zoning with a twist-massage parlors would be legal in the western section of midtown only if attached to a community facility or a hotel with 200 rooms or more. Even then, however, such mutations as rap parlors and sensitivity-training centers would not be affected. San Francisco, which has tried numerous regulations, is considering a stronger zoning law but has decided to await a U.S. Supreme Court decision on Detroit's authority to control porn shops and theaters through zoning...