Word: gadget
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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History will make a big fuss over Being There, because it was Sellers' last--and perhaps best--film. But for him, it was simply the closest he could come to perfection, to playing the self he didn't think existed. Chauncey Gardiner was just a man who loved a gadget...
...also answered all the ads in a magazine called Ten Storybooks. We had the replies come to Miss Chesley N. Dunlap because my name was clearly masculine. One producer of a breast pump was most persistent in trying to sell his gadget to Miss Dunlap. At length he sent along a picture of a bearded minister who had accidentally got hold of the pump and you should see what...
...Manhattan they go by names like the Eagle's Nest, the Spike, the Mine Shaft and the Anvil. In San Francisco they are called the Brig and the Ambush. They are all homosexual "leather" bars that cater to macho style and sadomasochistic taste. Along with some bathhouses, sex-gadget shops, magazines and private clubs, they make an increasingly visible subculture in the gay world. That leather fringe is now also visible on movie screens, as the backdrop for a film that has been denounced and picketed by homosexuals: William Friedkin's Cruising, the story of a gay murderer...