“We watched some of the movie. It was shocking. Sex is apparently hard labor. Various persons supported crushing weights in agonizing positions for what seemed like endless blocks of time. Exhausted men grunted and toiled like movers trying to get a refrigerator into a fifth floor walk-up.”

—  Russell Baker

"So This Is Depravity" (p.25)
So This Is Depravity (1980)

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writer and satirst from the United States 1925–2019

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