Word: offs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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"The main reaction to Richard Nixon's passing, writes Thompson, "--especially among those journalists who had been on the Deathwatch for two years--was a wild and wordless orgasm of long-awaited relief that tailed off almost instantly to a dull post-coital sort of depression that still endures." Since...
At Lake Geneva's Sugar Shack, a spacious, somewhat rundown nightspot, there is runway action thrice nightly. For a $4 cover charge and a two-drink minimum, a female customer can catch a 1-hr. 45-min. show-and usually a pinch of beefcake too, if she feels the...
The next performer, a onetime professional carpet layer named Turk Johnson is more exotic. Dressed as Star Wars' Darth Vader-complete with mask and laser sword-Johnson, 32, not only wriggles out of his elaborate costume but along the way he also executes a ribald torch dance, pours flaming...
For the dancers themselves, the rewards are as much psychic as financial. "It's an ego trip for everybody," claims Stripper Garrett, who makes $600 a week, excluding the tips that women stuff into his G string. "It's hard later to put yourself back in the world...
One of the many strange and illuminating episodes in Janet Frame's tenth novel concerns an Englishman's experiment with truth-seeking in the desert. He chooses a simmering patch of wasteland east of Berkeley, Calif., and in a few hours discovers that his dry run is the...