Word: legman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...White's readers who may be wondering, the old legman who writes about politics with the sensitivity of a novelist will soon hit the campaign trail once more, this time to begin gathering notes for The Making of the President...
...London's Time Out, a weekly counterculture magazine, and developed a reputation as an effective anti-Establishment reporter. In 1975, for instance, Hosenball published the names and described the activities of CIA employees in Britain. On the basis of that work, the Washington Post used Hosenball as a legman on a separate CIA story...
...Diderot of the dirty joke that Legman will be best remembered, although Rationale contains enough ravings against the inauthenticities of popular culture to earn him another title -the Carrie Nation of kitsch. He is also the Joe McCarthy of heterosexuality who looks for gays under every bed, a man who professes to love woman but whose opinions reveal a lover of the Vic torian idea of Woman, and a Jeremiah who sees the world ending in nuclear war or a fecal flood of pollution...
Throughout Rationale, Legman is concerned with a transcendent purity every bit as excessive and unattainable as the perfect body cleanliness of the deodorant-happy culture he abhors. His views on the psychological roots of dirty jokes, while delivered with ingenuity, verve and color (Legman will always call a spade a goddam shovel), belong to the Freudian orthodoxy as laid down by the master in Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious...
Trying to be more Freudian than Sigmund, Legman plays many varia tions on his single theme: smut springs from unconscious fears and rages and is usually directed by males against females. His illustrations on the war be tween the sexes range from the earliest skirmishes to a cocktail-party confrontation: a beautiful woman propositions a man. "My place or yours?" he asks...