Word: peeping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...life is kept by a historical society in Buffalo, where he was shot. Last week the nation was assured that the 6.5-mm. Italian-made Mannlicher-Carcano rifle with which Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated John F. Kennedy would not end up in a private collection or a public peep show...
...their outreach to people with a high motivation for joining-their own Sunday-school graduates, or suburban couples with children. Of suburban Washington families whose houses cost $22,000 or more, at least 65% belong to a church, compared with 3% of those who live immured in apartments and "peep at you through a hole in the door," as one frustrated minister puts...
Such moments occur frequently in this racy, juvenile, artfully photographed peep show by Director Roger Vadim (And God Created Woman). In 1950 France's Max Ophuls made La Ronde, a subtle, deliciously graceful film based on Arthur Schnitzler's period play Reigen. Without losing the rueful cynicism of the original, Ophuls described the efficacy of lust through ten amorous intrigues involving five men and five women. A prostitute takes a soldier. The soldier takes a chambermaid. The chambermaid takes a young man. And so on, until the last lover completes the cycle in the prostitute...
...paintings are executed in tempera on small Plexiglas plates, something he often did before expanding them on large canvases. Some seem like multiple-photo exposures of oil refineries, lonely steelscapes gyrating in the sky. Others are pure scenery, where patchy foliage parts to let a background watercolor peep through the Plexiglas...
Like a modern Bo Peep, Peggy, at 22, set out for Europe in 1920 to find herself amidst the lost generation. She was determined to become a patroness of this century's avantgarde, and set herself the goal of collecting...