Word: bumpings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been that way ever since he dropped out of the University of Colorado in 1956 and went on a solitary expedition of discovery. It took him to art school in Paris, carried him through the rest of the Continent, and deposited him with a bump back in the States 13 months later. "It was a black period for me," he recalls. "I didn't know what the hell I wanted to do, except get out of California. I'd grown up there, but I always had this image in my head of living in New York...
...public. India's debate, for example, was set off when a government censorship commission recommended that "if in telling a story it is relevant to depict a passionate kiss or a nude figure," moviemakers should do so. After all, the commission noted, Indian directors never hesitate to feature bump-and-grind girly dances so provocative that they "may almost be called the performance of a unilateral act of coitus." The argument impressed few Indians; in a recent poll, 75% opposed kissing and nudity in films-this in the land of the Kama Sutra and the world's most...
...Friday starting today the third floor of the Union will be transformed into a happy hunting ground. With rock music blaring in the background so they can't and won't have to talk, Summer School and Harvard-Radcliffe students will mix, dance, and bump together in blissful bacchanalation...
...Arab pickpockets specialize in port cities. They use razors to slit back pockets of tourists in bars. They bump up against people brusquely, with no finesse...
Michael, perhaps the most "anxious queer' of them all, uses the game as a device to make all the others share in the self-hatred he feels at being a homosexual. While he hopes that "not all faggots bump themselves off at the end of the story," he cannot escape his conviction that misery is all he will ever know ("Show me a happy homosexual and I'll show you a gray corpse"). He places his final hopes on the possibility that even seemingly straight Alan is in reality a "closet queer," unhappy like the rest of them...