Word: hidebound
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...result, the only ones who watch tennis are those who participate in the sport." Billie Jean has a point. Apart from the most important matches, tennis ranks slightly above barrel jumping and kite flying as a spectator sport. The fault is not with the game but with its hidebound governing bodies. Continually bogged down in petty disputes, they have been more concerned with self-preservation than promotion. Last week Alastair Martin, president of the usually staid United States Lawn Tennis Association, called for sweeping changes. The U.S.L.T.A., he said, "is losing opportunities, causing confusions and creating misunderstandings-not so much...
Alfred snuffling about her. Alfred coming in. Watchit Alfred, bad karma. Bad karma too in Sam's judicial face watched her while she was ministering to young Stefan. Samson the hidebound eastern mutt. Merilee finds her dress and pulls it on over her head. She goes lightly barefoot to the edge of the canyon, expecting still her other half is nearby and waiting...
...Funt's sexual satire are social victims: fat ladies in print dresses, cavernous old men prattling about the new amorality, young men anxious for employment, unaware that the hidden waiting-room camera is counting every tic. Periodically, Funt breaks in to remind the audience that it is hidebound by the strictures of Victorian morality, that his X-rated candid camerawork is helping to free society from hypocrisy and cant. But if society were truly free, there would be no Naked Lady, which lives, like any thigh-slapping practical joker, on the embarrassment of the innocent...