Word: deviant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Kathleen Quinlan, whose acting stands out among the cast's mediocre performances, almost saves Wilder's skit with a sensitive portrayal of the woman who seems willing to reform the deviant. Again the script intervenes. Quinlan is married and loves her husband. Surprisel She was really just out for her own physical satisfaction...
...find it ironic, in the land of battered wives, the Ku Klux Klan, and the neutron bomb, that gay people are called immoral and unnatural. If anything is "deviant", it is the aggressive male machismo which dominates our society...
Produced by Penthouse magazine, "Caligula" depicts the reign of a Roman emperor who ruled for a brief period and who was infamous for his exploitative and deviant sexual practices, which the film shows in explicit detail...
Based on evidence drawn primarily from a series of open meetings and a survey of one-quarter of the undergraduates, the report concludes that race problems at Harvard "are not caused by a single, deviant group of racist students," but by distorted perceptions on the part of many undergraduates...
...their forthcoming book Traumatic Abuse and Neglect of Children about the public attitude that "no matter how benign, any adult-child interaction that may be construed as even remotely sexual, qualifies, a priori, as traumatic and abusive." One who commits incest, say the authors, is like "a religious deviant in a one-religion society"thus neatly planting the notion that opposition to incest is quite like religious intolerance...