Word: maling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...haven for quiet contemplation and omphaloskepsis. When it became mandatory to wear radio receiving sets so that people who had no idea where I was could call me, I could always unbolt the thing from my left ear. But when, in 1968, Congress passed the Numbskull Act requiring all male adults to have these receivers surgically implanted, brother, that did it! Big Brother, that...
...solemnly swear that I will forever keep sacredly secret the songs, words and grip . . . regarding which a most rigid secrecy must be maintained ... I will never yield to bribe, flattery, threats, passion, punishment, persecution, persuasion, nor any other enticements whatever coming from or offered by any person or persons, male or female, for the purpose of obtaining from me a secret or secret information. I will die rather than divulge them, so help me God.' Did you swear to that oath...
...affected by the strike, and possibly responsible for the comparatively subdued tone of the male outcry: the city's 100-odd toruko buro, or Turkish bathhouses, famed for their bikini-clad and sometimes surprisingly versatile masseuses...
...Things That Go Bump in the Night. Terrence McNally, 26, had better beware of moths, for his mind is pure wool. The thoughts of this playwriting youth are the fashionably wrong wrong thoughts about Nuclear Apocalypse, the Bitch Mother, the Castrated Male, the Homosexual Martyr, and the Dehumanization of Everyone. The result is one of those off-bleat stupefactions that make the modern stage look like the queerest wing of a nuthouse...
...Male Hunt is a French comedy that hangs precariously on the supposition that good plots come in threes. Its loosely interwoven stories are one part nimble New Wave lark, one part vintage boudoir farce, one part homogenized Hollywood...