Porn is suddenly sexy to a cable TV company once considered the industry prude.
Adelphia Communications Corp. has quietly become the nation’s only leading cable operator to offer the most explicit category of hard-core porn. Come Friday, triple-X-rated programming will be available on cable for the first time in a major media market: Southern California.
“People want it, so we are trying to provide it,” Adelphia spokeswoman Erica Stull said. “The more Xs, the more popular.”
He has been to Mr. Sneed’s on Eighth Street, across from the barracks, to get a regulation haircut.
He has been to Mr. Yi, next door, to get fitted for his crimson and blue uniforms.
He has learned how to salute: Right hand only. Elbow out. Fingertips to the back of the hat bill, with no palm or thumb showing.
By the way, Marine, it’s a cover, not a hat.
And he has been warned against chewing gum in uniform.
Now it is showtime.
This Sunday, recruit Joseph DeLuccio, 27, a carpenter’s son from Vernon, N.J., makes his debut with the Marine Corps — not with a rifle, but with a black, short-barrel, smooth-bore instrument that he will carry throughout his career in uniform.
The oboe.
There are oboes in the Marine Band?