Word: kink
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...best books are parables written out of anger at some inexplicable kink in the collective psyche: blind trust in science and scientists (Cat's Cradle); faith in war as a rational activity (Slaughterhouse-Five). After a lengthy period of mellowed-out serenity (and two mediocre novels, Breakfast of Champions and Slapstick), Vonnegut is mad again. His target in Jailbird is money, specifically the odd systems that people have invented for distributing and withholding...
...Developing the reflexes is "not a matter of guts, but of brains. Ideally you sit behind the wheel like a computer." Safety is the first priority. The finest racers preach, "First finish. Then finish first."-We walked the track, Couture explaining, always explaining, how to attack each bend, each kink. Then he drove us to the cars: Formula Fords, long-nosed fiber-glass machines that weigh about 950 lbs. and are powered by a standard Pinto engine. Formula Fords are stripped for speed: no windscreen, no headlights, no speedometer (a tachometer is your guide...
...Kings of Kink. WAVAW has asked record-buyers to boycott the three companies. But so far the tactic has had little impact. In fact, record shops may be on the way toward luring browsers away from dirty-book shops. Some current albums: Wild Angel by Nelson Slater (girl wearing a chain gag); Bloodstone's Do You Wanna Do a Thing? (gang-rape scene); Pure Food and Drug Act's Choice Cuts (woman's bare buttocks stamped with the album title). A group called the Ohio Players has illustrated a series of albums with sadistic photos. Among them...
...woman wincing in pain as a man bit her left ear, and another of a man ramming a hand into a woman's breast. Newton, who is regarded as one of the fashion world's most elegant photographers-and also one of its kings of kink-has since turned out a series of pictures showing women as killers and victims. Perhaps the most shocking showed a woman's head being forced into a toilet bowl...
...MAJORITY of the Kink kultists present, the situation could not have been more utopian. Not only did the concert start promptly, but there was no warm-up group to try the waiting audience's patience. Furthermore, the two-part format of the concert allowed the audience to have its cake and eat, too. The first part, which lasted close to an hour, consisted of a well-chosen selection of former hits including such favorites as "You Really Got Me," "Celluloid Heroes," "Skin and Bones," "Here Comes Yet Another Day," and "Waterloo Sunset." When Ray Davies wasn't flopping around like...