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Throughout the play the audience is horrified by the asylum, and shocked at the idea that people would come and gawk at the poor inmates. But by the end, the audience has become the people peering in the windows to see the lunatics, making for an uncomfortable feeling after the show...
Real New Yorkers don't gawk from the Empire State Building or the Statue of Liberty. But, just like tourists, even jaded natives love to stroll through Central Park, maybe kick back in a paddleboat, nosh a hot dog, gather for the world's best people watching. It's an oasis--today a safe one, usually--so how on June 11 did it become a hunting ground for a roving pack of sexual aggressors? How did four or five dozen guys, some obviously drunk and stoned, get away with groping and in some cases stripping as many as 47 women...
Contrary to another popular belief, the pre-exam period ritual is not about exhibitionism. The participants were not indulging a secret fantasy where their peers gawk at, photograph or film their bodies. There are easier (read: warmer) ways to expose oneself. For example, certain residents of Leverett House were so enamored of their nudity that they proceeded to run naked through various rooms of McKlintock Hall after Primal Scream was over...
...began last September, when J.P. and I decided to turn FM s first comp meeting into a self-gratifying gawk-fest. Charged with preparing a list of randomly selected first-years to invite to FM s annual Open House, we attacked our chore with gusto--trolling the student directory for hotties...
...Moines Country Club had never seen anything like it. For a week in July, more than 250,000 Iowans, including Governor Tom Vilsack, came in droves to applaud, cheer and gawk at the stars. SPORTS ILLUSTRATED called the event, the 20th Senior U.S. Open golf tournament, "the biggest thing to hit the state since Pope John Paul II's visit," which happened 20 years earlier. The mere arrival in town of Arnold Palmer, about to turn 70, made headlines in the statewide newspaper, the Des Moines Register...