Word: deviantly
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...combat zone. Pavlo Hummel probed the rigors of boot camp, Sticks and Bones exposed the unhealing scar tissue of a returned Viet Nam veteran, and now Streamers exhausts itself in an intermediate no man's land where fear barely dares to speak its name, or love its deviant desires...
...sense of identity and fails to enfold him in a warm, unconditional love. Drafted into the army, he cherishes the camaraderie but loathes the authoritarian procedures and is broodily apprehensive about his own possible death in combat. As an innocent, he is startled by his introduction to evil, or deviant, modes of conduct. He is forced to wonder if his friendship for his fellow soldiers is strictly that, or is simply a masked form of his own desire...
McCann is the one deviant in the Boston jazz picture for the week. Without exception the major clibs have decided to book the finest jazz guitarists playing today...
...Money of Johns Hopkins University predicts it will soon subside, with little lasting effect. Edgar Gregersen, an anthropologist at New York City's Queens College who has been studying sadomasochists, is more concerned. He sees S-M "increasing everywhere. I think there's a certain experimentation going on?a 'deviant chic...
...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...