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...hero, John Morley (Zero Mostel) is, by self-definition, "a flaming faggot." He is also a zany, successful author who has never paid his income tax. The I.R.S. has ferreted out his secret, and Morley has been forced to throw himself on the mercy of tax advisers. His chief consultant, Irving Spaatz (Jules Munshin), is a legal weasel of wizardry inventiveness. Munshin plays the role in droll fashion and is astonishingly agile at working his way through a verbal tax maze of inflated gibberish that includes explanations of convertible debentures, spinoffs, and sale-leaseback arrangements...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Plays: The Latent Heterosexual | 3/29/1968 | See Source »

...conversation which Mr. Jamison apparently misconstrued. I had asked Country Joe what his reaction was to a fundamentalist minister's charge that rock music was an attempt to destroy the sanctity of marriage. He facetiously agreed with the minister and said that rock had turned him into a faggot. The fact is that Country Joe is married and that his wife is expecting a child. Ken Emerson

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NONEXISTENT HOMOSEXUALITY | 3/25/1968 | See Source »

...pretty sure to be infantile. A couple of sacked-out homosexuals in dirty underwear fondle each other incuriously. Another homosexual does a striptease. One lesbian beats another with a big-buckled belt. Another lesbian who is also a junkie jabs herself in the buttock with a hypodermic. A faggot who calls himself "the Pope" advises a lesbian to sneak into church and do something obscene to the figure on the cross-"It'll do you good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Nuts from Underground | 12/30/1966 | See Source »

...really wear those clothes?' I tell them, 'No, I wear a grey flannel suit and then I change when I get into the store.' These people don't know anything about me. But, like, they figure, 'If he's not the same as us, he must be a faggot.' What can I do? All I say is, 'Look, man, you don't even know...

Author: By Reed Jackson, | Title: Groovy | 12/15/1966 | See Source »

Parents tend to deplore the progression toward long hair. Says David Mauldin, the 15-year-old son of Cartoonist Bill Mauldin: "My father thinks it makes me look like a faggot." In their own defense, students point out that long hair has been a sign of virility ever since Samson, claim that they often grow mop tops because their girl friends want them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fads: The Short & the Long of It | 10/1/1965 | See Source »

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