Word: fannings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...startling aspect of porn is its new social acceptability. Prodigious Linda (Deep Throat) Lovelace is an ordinary topic of surburban conversation and a cover subject for Esquire. Superstud Harry Reems, at 28 a veteran of 400 porn movies, has had to dodge his fans on the street. Porn Star Johnny Holmes has 37 fan clubs, and Writer Gay Talese says an esoteric cult has grown up around Leather Princess Bettie Page, whose photos "are collected and traded across the country like you and I did with baseball cards." Prestigious Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass., honored Penthouse Publisher Bob Guccione...
...Dinky car, a moth, a scrap of tapestry, a bow tie, some marbles, a pen nib, a pheasant feather, a piece of burnt parchment and a child's fan, all pasted onto a wooden board. Some fetishist's fun? No, it is a Victorian novelty, a riddle picture made by Britain's Princess Margaret, 45, for Roddy Llewellyn, 28, a rich young swell who recently vacationed with Margaret on the Caribbean island of Mustique. Roddy describes the work as "a private message between Margaret and myself." According to the London News of the World, Roddy, who wears...
...terminal monitor has gone off with his date and most of the students are gathering up their notebooks and leaving. Silence pervades the room now. Only the light tapping of fingers on the terminal keys and the hum of a fan can be heard. There are five people still working at midnight, three of them are undergrads. A student sits at the center table screwing up his face and dragging his hand through his hair repeatedly while figuring out a problem in his notebook. A woman jiggles her foot, causing her stool to squeak in rhythm...
Entering the chief playhouse in this three-theater complex, the not-yet-finished Olivier Theater, is a breath-catching moment. It flares out like a fan, not quite to the width of an amphitheater, but with an uncanny resemblance in miniature to the ancient Greek theater of Epidaurus. It is as if 2,500 years of dramatic history had been telescoped into this immutable wedge of space...
...theater as Directors John Dexter, Peter Brook and Peter Hall himself. The concept emerged of a theater in which, as Lasdun puts it, "an actor could hold an audience in the palm of his hand, and every one of them would have him in his sight." The fan spread of the house is between 125° and 130°; that is the effective width span of human vision. In intensity of effect, this means that one actor can have an eyeball-to-eyeball confrontation with 1,160 pairs of eyes...