Word: paraphernalia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pretty heavy dudes," while John's own girlfriend complains in the accent of the Seven Sisters, "I don't want any skag in my house." There's even an occasionally striking image--as when Peter and Susan, tripped-out strangers in Paradise, stand naked amongst the technical paraphernalia of a recording studio. But Williams' sense of self-amusement is simply too erratic...
This fresh, efficient first novel speaks directly-almost without distracting fictional paraphernalia-to women who are raising their consciousness and simultaneously lowering their esteem for men. In general, it goes over subjects that are becoming all too familiar at an alarming rate: the folly of women who define themselves only in terms of men and the tyranny of a culture that penalizes them unless they do so. But the author has found an original and horrific setting for her story: a singles apartment-club in Los Angeles...
...impression, a very deliberate one, is of culture objects cut loose from any power to communicate, or even to be noticed. There is no reality to which they connect. Their owners possess them as so much paraphernalia, like the derby hats, codpieces and bleeding-eye emblems that Alex and his mates wear so defiantly on their bully-boy costumes. When Alex swats at the Cat Lady's sculptured schlong, she screams: "Leave that alone, don't touch it! It's a very important work of art!" This pathetic burst of connoisseur's jargon echoes...
...This week, for our cover on espionage, we chose a collage by Dennis Wheeler that incorporates a stylized face and some of the dark profession's paraphernalia. One of Wheeler's best remembered contributions was for the 1969 cover "The Sex Explosion." He used a color photograph of a nude couple seen behind a giant, zippered fig leaf...
...spectacular power and a bustle of activity. The Mothers were on stage, Taking cognizance of the audience only by saying. "Will you children please be quiet so we can tune up," a full quarter of an hour passed while the Mothers prepared, in Zappa's words, "their elaborate electronic paraphernalia...