Word: host
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BOYS IN THE BAND. In recent sea sons, homosexuality has surfaced as a dramatic theme, and Mart Crowley's uncompromising drama deals with it coolly and honestly, lancing bitchy merriment with desolating insight. Kenneth Nelson and Leonard Frey play the host and guest of honor at a homosexual birthday party with skill and grace...
...affairs of the novel take place against a backdrop of news headlines, introduced peripherally by the author. Like "matters of fate" they impinge hardly at all upon the consciousness of the adulterers. Kennedy's assassination, for example, does not deter a drunken party, for after all, as the host Freddy Thorne says, "I've bought all the booze...
Their word games, their parties, are the new rituals and ceremonies. Their sacrament is adultery. The binding force of the new religion is not love but sexuality. The community is united not by faith or the Host, but by the orifices of the body. Together the couples form a congregation, "a circle of heads to keep out the night...
...time for Captain Cleveland, a midafternoon kiddy show on Cleveland's WKBF-TV. The host, Ventriloquist John Slowey, slipped lavaliere mikes around the necks of his young dummy, "Private Clem," and of the guest of the day. "What do I call you-your highness?" piped the bug-eyed puppet. The guest shook his head, smiled, and replied: "Most people use the name Mr. Mayor." So began the first of a weekly series of appearances by Carl Stokes, the first elected Negro head of a major U.S. city and the most winning on-air mayor for the kids since...
...with a rambling eight-room flat on Manhattan's Riverside Drive. Out of pity and penury, he invites Felix to share his lair. At this point Simon pulls the switch that brightens the screen: the partnership becomes a parody of a failing marriage. Oscar is the kind of host who offers his card-playing buddies green sandwiches that were "either very new cheese or very old meat." Felix is Mr. Clean, an uptight neurotic ("the only man in the world with clenched hair") who does all the shopping and cooking and charges the cigar-smoky atmosphere with deodorizer until...