Word: peep
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...carry on in a heart-straining tremulo throughout the whole play, she manages to keep it from being tiresome. With her grandmother and her two muzhik, admirers she can even be exciting, while her portrayal of a psychotic soul returning to normality seems accurate, wherever it is allowed to peep through the rest of the hash in the play...
...Desperate Hours alternates scenes inside Howard Bay's clever two-floored house with quick snatches at police headquarters. The invaders make half the family go to work on pain of killing the other half at the slightest peep. Nor can the Hilliards set any trap that they won't also tumble into themselves. Even the police, after they have broken the story, can't shoot things out without maybe killing Hilliards instead of hoodlums...
...merrily uncommon scold. The butt of some pretty rich barnyard humor as she bounces around the countryside on her donkey, Gina gives as good as she gets. Her ragged dress appears inadequate for keeping the weather out, but it lets in a lot of stares. However, a peep is all the village Toms get. Gina is in love with a local cop (Roberto Risso), and he with her. Police regulations, however, deplore such goings...
Sooner or later, free societies must deal with the danger that increasingly sensitive electronic eyes and ears may destroy personal freedom by annihilating privacy. This whole field of technological surveillance needs legislative attention. The Government cannot be given unlimited power to peep and pry. "The greatest dangers to liberty," wrote Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis with reference to wiretapping, "lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal." But the Government does need some power to balance the criminal's new advantages, especially the advantages to conspiracy against the national security...
...three sculptures, along with a gracefully sprawling nude called Eve, had moved from owner to owner till they came to rest at a side show at Blackpool, a more sedate version of Coney Island, full of slot machines, peep shows and freaks. The Epsteins used to draw up to $4,000 a week, but when receipts fell off, the owner decided to sell...