“Porn”, “sexy” and “prude” all in the lede? That’s impressive.

LA Times:

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.”

WashPost:

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?

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