Word: peeping
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...suitable locations in advance, howls take place on Thursday nights in August. Folks drive hours to attend a howl, which may last less than two minutes. Yet "no one goes away disappointed," says park naturalist Rick Stronks. When this haunting symphony of adult wolves and pups begins, not a peep is heard from human crowds as large...
...would actually herself strip nude - but tastefully! - at the podium. Nonetheless, the Democrats trotted out its otherwise unbroken lineup of female congresspeople, and it's testament to the enduring sway over the party of Roe v. Wade and the Supreme Court appointment power that none of them raised a peep about being segregated in one block like some "Babes of the Senate" spread in the August issue...
...programs exploitative. In Germany lawmakers forced Big Brother to turn off the cameras for an hour a day, apparently not seeing the irony of curtailing consensual exhibitionism on a show named Big Brother. There is a puritanical streak in some of the criticisms, an assumption that wanting to peep at willing subjects is prima facie immoral. And yet the shows depend on just that attitude to succeed; they hook viewers by convincing them they're being naughty...
Drake, alas, detected nary a peep. Nor has anyone else since then. Even after spending thousands of hours scanning the skies, at myriad frequencies, at a cost of more than $100 million astronomers have yet to detect a single credible signal, though the most distant star probed is barely 1% of the way across the galaxy...
...Film Archive will also be screening five of Egoyan's short films-Howard in Particular, Peep Show, Open House, En Passant, and A Portrait of Arshile-on Saturday night. Although these films were basically released "off the radar" as Egoyan puts it, they are still important works to him on a personal level. "I've always been interesting in the way thinking has become a kind of ritual and how we do many things without being consciously aware of it. I think there's certainly a facet of absurdity in human nature and I wanted to explore its impact...