Word: peeping
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...yesterday afternoon, Burch had deleted the contents of her blog, replacing the archives with a single entry: “Voyeurism is bad. Please go peep someplace else...
...injured scores of her supporters and so provoked tough new economic sanctions by the U.S. In the past, either event might have sparked a popular uprising on the scale witnessed in 1988, when the Burmese military shot and jailed thousands of demonstrators. The reaction this time?nothing, not a peep of protest?reflects how ruthlessly the Burmese junta has terrorized its own people. Washington's sanctions have boosted morale among Burma's embattled democrats, but they promise little apart from further poverty and desperation in a country ravaged by military greed and incompetence. The military is now a state within...
...classes, skidded into a chaos of drugs and porn, and has come back as a family fun center. Traub has a high time flying us through the Square's gamy saga, from the chorus-girl revues of a century ago to the corporate wheeler dealings that replaced peep shows with The Lion King and the world's largest Toys...
...just the squalid 42nd Street of the '70s that has been wiped away. It's the rich, wild tangle of the prewar years. Traub is of two minds about "the stupendous contrivance" that Times Square has become. So are a lot of people. Nobody misses the junkies and peep shows. But can't we bring back some of that naughty bawdy, gaudy, sporty 42nd Street...
...linguistic distinction between S&M and SM may seem tiny, but the pop-culture, peep-show version of S&M has little to do with the real lives of those who practice SM (which is why sexologists who study sadomasochism have now also adopted the shorter abbreviation). S&M is Madonna in kinky outfits, Anne Rice chapters that run to the louche--even a recent Dannon ad featuring a woman in a French-maid uniform. Such S&M imagery has become so common that our astonishment at Robert Mapplethorpe's photographs of leather and pain 20 years ago now seems...