Word: amateurs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Wait a minute, though! What happens when the other side decides to put on a show itself? What happens when they countersubversively decide to use the Rascals' best weapon--amateur audacity and charm--to win mass approval for themselves? Crafty kids. They ask dad the best way to raise the money, and they ask mum if they can borrow the interior decorator to do the sets and they hire a Professional Director to choreograph the kick line. But No Girls Allowed, so some of the kids stuff their skirts with petticoats and put on phony busts. Step kick kick, step...
Thursday night is amateur night, when audience members, by appointment, act out their fantasies onstage. "Some nights we have all spanking fantasies," says Lowndes, who prefers a bit more variety. Other popular numbers are female wrestling, dressing men in lingerie, and foot tickling. Says Lowndes: "About 80% of the people who come to us are submissives; they want some mild humiliation. I feel most of it comes from childhood. Mother told us when to get up, when to eat-and spanked us when we were bad. Yet was all very secure, and what better place to re-create this love...
This is a yearly diversion, like when Tom Rush gives his annual concert in Hum 9b. The United States Amateur Squash Championships, both individual and team, were held in Chicago this weekend, and while the Crimson racquetmen didn't make any headlines, what's more patriotic than spending Washington's birthday in Lincoln country...
Reese is Desaulniers' age times two, and he also happens to be the top-ranked amateur in the country. He was a finalist in this tournament a year ago in Philadelphia, but Desaulniers "played a super match" according to his coach, Dave Fish. "He just needs some seasoning...
...painters from the area around Lake T'ai, the Yangtze River, and Mt. Huang (known as "the eye area" for its geographical appearance and importance to Chinese art) split into two groups, according to their acceptance or rejection of the patronage of the art-collecting emperors. The scholars and "amateur" painters (those who did not earn their living by their art) were freer to develop individual styles than were the members of the court academy, who worked in the imperial cities. The former, often political exiles, lived and painted quietly in the hills. Ironically, this behavior brought them veneration...