Word: deviant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there is any major fault with the Loeb production it is that it is eminently safe. No one could condemn it as being obviously deviant from Shakespeare's purpose or offensively anti-Semitic. Hamlin might have been more daring. He might have created, for example, a Merchant of Venice as envisioned by Leslie Fiedler, in whose view Shylock represents early Puritanism and the morality of accountability, and the rest of the Venetians are simply time-serving hedonists seeking the shortest route to pleasure no matter how unjust. Or Hamlin might have aimed for "historical accuracy" and had Shylock played...
...book's thesis, startling to those who have not closely followed recent trends in the feminist movement: rape is not a random act by deviant or troubled men, but a worldwide social mechanism by which men control women. Says Brownmiller: "It is nothing more or less than a conscious process of intimidation by which all men keep all women in a state of fear. Rather than society's aberrants or 'spoilers of purity,' men who commit rape have served in effect as front-line masculine shock troops, terrorist guerrillas in the longest sustained battle the world...
...Square are holdovers from those days. Now they tend to focus on particular genres. These festivals aren't Hitchoock festivals or even Radley Metzger festivals; they aim to show the whole range of detective films and erotic films, the good, the bad, and the commercial, the typical and the deviant...
Lenny thought of himself as a deviant, maintaining that we need deviants to tell us when we're going awry. Without idealizing him, it's clear Lenny deserved more thanks than he ever got--for being honest and critical, for putting up a legal fight that gave future comics much greater freedom of expression, and mostly for being so funny...
...husband for 29 years, TV Producer Irving Mansfield helped make sure that even if her well-merchandized works were scorned by critics, they would be read by a vast and curious public. A compulsive worker, Susann concocted her stories from a standard, easy-to-read recipe of soft-core deviant human appetites and lusts, glamorous settings like Broadway and Hollywood, and characters often resembling easily recognizable public figures. Dolls, with sales of 17 million copies, became probably the most purchased novel in history...