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...affected prose and naive Freudianism. Exotic Chinese and Africans are used as backdrops. Sensual women can be picked out from a crowd by their copies of Lady Chatterly's Lover. A man feels "blocked" and his lover suggests psychoanalysis. I ended up sympathizing somewhat with the poor lonely old codger just trying to get his rocks off and being fed Freudian morality...

Author: By Suzanna Rodell, | Title: It's Worse the Second Time | 5/3/1979 | See Source »

...corporations - General Sexotics, Cybordelics, and Intercourse International. When the production of these giants was at its peak, sex, from a private amusement, a spectator sport, group gymnastics, a hobby, and a collector's market, turned into a philosophy of civilization. McLuhan, who as a hale and hearty old codger had lived to see these times, argued in his Genitocracy that this precisely was the destiny of mankind from the moment it entered on the path of technology; that even the ancient rowers, chained to the galleys, and the woodsmen of the North with their saws, and the steam engine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Of Microchips and Men | 1/29/1979 | See Source »

...relatives, fussily insisting that officers and crew "refrain from language strong," should be a solid character nonetheless. He's the vehicle for Gilbert's satiric venom, and he should be just respectable enough for us to enjoy laughing at him. Jonathan A. Prince turns Porter into a lovable old Codger, who you'd help across the street or stage if you could stop cracking up for a moment. So much for social satire. The sets by Cindy Ruskin are good, the musical direction by David Crowe nothing special. The orchestra keeps rolling along, with only the brass contributing occasionally...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Pinafore on an Old Tack | 12/4/1978 | See Source »

Even the most tweedy alum Crimson old codger that Stephen Herzenberg could create in his article (see Crimson, (Oct. 24) couldn't have failed to notice that the heavyweight eight did work last Sunday. A fast boat should not pose any conceptual difficulties for any loyal Harvard alum, fictional or otherwise. Penultimate limon or not, that mixed eight functioned as one smooth unit of eight athletes rowing their guts out together. Determination, pain, (and possibly sheer stupidity) know no sexual boundaries. Crew may also be more egalitarian than most sports in that efficiency, technical smoothness, and mental toughness can count...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: About That Mixed Eight | 10/26/1978 | See Source »

...stand-up comic; Little Sherman, a perverse little boy; and Walt Buzzy, a gay director. Grandpa Funk, based on an old wino Williams once saw in San Francisco, always appears at the end of the show. Clicking his gums and speaking in a raspy high-pitched voice, the old codger explains he used to be a stand-up comedian with a television series about an alien ?"of course that was before the real aliens landed." Now he wonders if anyone in the audience remembers World War III ?"all 45 minutes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Robin Williams Show | 10/2/1978 | See Source »

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