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The Sexologist Who Unlocked the Female Orgasm

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By Margaret Talbot Verified
| The New Yorker Verified
In the nineteen-eighties, the sexologist Shere Hite was on TV a lot, uttering words seldom heard there before: “orgasm,” “masturbation,” “clitoris.” They tended to make her fellow talk-show guests rutch around in their seats. Take an interview Hite did in 1982 on “The Mike Douglas Show,” in which she was wedged between the genial daytime host and the actor David Hasselhoff. In 1976, her book “The Hite Report: A Nationwide Study of Female Sexuality” had become a huge best-seller.
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鬼才ヨアキム・トリアー監督と新作『センチメンタル・バリュー』

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By Margaret Talbot Verified
| Wired Japan Verified
オスロの上品なフログネル地区を歩いていると、周囲の控えめなアパートや大使館の並びのなかで、どこか周りから浮いている一軒の家が目に入る。 もっとも、それは醜いとか荒れ果てているという意味ではない。むしろ漂ってくるのは、おとぎ話に登場する山小屋のような趣だ。ダークウッドで覆われた外観に、急勾配の切妻屋根。チェリーレッドの縁取りが、誕生日ケーキの飾りのようにくるりと走っている。ノルウェーではこの種の建築様式を「ドラゲスティル」、すなわち「ドラゴン様式」と呼ぶ。バイキング船や木造のスターヴ教会を思わせる19世紀後半の美学だ。 新作映画『センチメンタル・バリュー』の舞台の一部としてこの家を使ったノルウェー人監督ヨアキム・トリアーは、ここを「『長くつ下のピッピ』が住んでいそう」な家だと表現する。「洗練された上品な街並みの真ん中にあって、どこか野生味と魂を感じさせる場所です」と彼は語った。 映画のなかでは、場所が人物と同じくらい重要なキャラクターになりうる──これはよく聞かれる表現だが、トリアーはまさにそれを自分のものにしてきた。...
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Easter Island and the Allure of "Lost Civilizations"

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By Margaret Talbot Verified
| The New Yorker Verified
Finding out what actually happened in the deep past can be a slog, so when ancient history is packaged as mystery-spine-tingling but solvable-it's hard to resist. Who doesn't want to know how a lost civilization got lost, or where it might be hiding? The trouble is that what gets touted as a lost civilization often turns out to have been there all along.
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