Word: movieola
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Free-Floating Libido. In the four issues that have appeared to date, one article examines the phenomenon of moviemaking at U.C.L.A. and speculates that many of the students turn to movies because they have found the literary life too strenuous. "Hunched over a Movieola like some anchoritic lama at his prayer wheel," says the piece, "the moviemaker imagines the medium an ideal outlet for free-floating artiness or supererogatory libidinousness. There was in fact at least one instance in which a director became so enamored of his leading lady that he wrote a nude love scene into the script...
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