Word: peeping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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EDWIN Gilbert has made a career out of prose peep shows. A kind of strait-laced Tom Wolfe, he milks the various segments of the American elite for all they are worth and then uses the material for novels. Past Gilbert victims include the prestigious families of Westchester (Silver Spoon), the wealthy American businessmen in France (The New Ambassadors), and the automobile society in Detroit (American Chrome). Now Gilbert wants to tell us about the rich of New York City, the beautiful people of Park Avenue who grace the back pages of Time magazine. He's discovered something...
...below the belt to beneath discussion. Such films have traditionally been shown in private or at pot-art parties, but Chelsea Girls is currently on view for a $3 admission charge at a mid-Manhattan theater. What the customers are seeing is a very dirty and a very dull peep show. Or rather, two of them-Warhol runs two films side by side on the screen simultaneously. The characters are all homosexuals and junkies, and they spend most of their screen time lying around and trying to think of something...
...that defiles every American's right to keep his private life private. Representative Gallagher goes so far as to predict that private homes will have to take the same precautions that embassies are forced to take now: "The essential ingredients of life will be carried on in soundproof, peep-proof, prefabricated rooms where, hopefully, no one will be able to spy, but where life won't be worth living...
...Fiftysix years' anticipation, burning jealousy and feverish curiosity," groused the European edition of the New York Herald Tribune, deserved more than "this peep show," this "cocktail cracker thrown to a hungry lion...
...quiet. Both the King and Queen learned to paint, and some of their canvases adorn the walls of Chitralada Palace. The King perfected his considerable skills as a saxophonist and composer; one of his tunes, Blue Night, made the Broad way scene in Mike Todd's 1950 production Peep Show. The royal couple had four children, three girls and a boy, Prince Vajiralongkorn, who is now studying in England, prepping for Rug by school and kingship as Rama X. And like his ancestors, Bhumibol in the tenth year of his reign shaved his head, retired briefly to a monastery...