Word: nut
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...least for awhile, Mailer is run-in' scared. And as he runs, as he chases about "the fields of flesh and cunt," he picks up every nut and bolt he finds and throws it at us as a warning. Beware the metal fingers of the hand of technology, he insists. Then be conjures up ferocious pictures of abortions and extra-uterine gestation and operations that would give men vaginas. Beware he antiseptic, rubber-coated hand, he wails...
...second cousin." A superwoman, health-food nut, and opera buff...
FILMED documentaries of rock are forced to deal directly with the music's mystique. They can neither elaborate its power as in Monterey Pop , or, as in Groupies , expose it as the nut of sexual exploitation. Nowhere does rock mystification slide over into exploitation more easily than in the groupie sub-culture. The lessons of Groupies are clear from the start. In one of the opening sequences, an ex-groupie says she "balled fifty, maybe a hundred musicians." Then one day she looked at herself in the mirror, "my boobs were hanging out of a low cut dress...
...boutiques; Cardin, already into men's wear, is now designing plumbing and chocolate boxes and playing with his own theater. St. Laurent is creating men's clothes-and sheets and towels too. In fact, Yves will soon be owned frock, shirt and shoulders by Squibb Beech-Nut, Inc.-and may well be designing gum wrappers in a few years...
Unbreakable Bones. As Penn began casting about for a white actor to play Old Lodge Skins, he considered Sir Laurence Olivier (who presumably would have dug up his old betel-nut makeup from Khartoum), and eventually offered the part to Richard Boone, who turned it down. Then Gene Lasko, associate producer of Little Big Man, happened to see Smith! and immediately dispatched a script for the chief to read in Vancouver. Says Dan George, in his measured English: "I saw so many lines and dialogues, I got scared. I called Gene Lasko and told him it was too much...