Word: peeping
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Slander (MGM) takes a candid peep into the keyhole press, which in recent years has made a multimillion-dollar business out of character assassination. On the face of it, the picture is just Hollywood's way of swatting one of its more irritating fleas: most of the people who have been smeared by the scandal magazines are movie stars. But in a deeper sense the moviemakers have served the public too. For in the pursuit of the principal villain they also take a swipe or two at his accomplices-at the readership which settles in cloudlike millions...
Thirty years ago, over cornucopia-shaped Radiolas, Americans in 25 cities heard the first peep out of the National Broadcasting Co., created by RCA's David Sarnoff to sell more of what he first envisioned as a "radio music box." Last week, with a $350,000 birthday party in Miami, NBC proudly surveyed what Sarnoff had wrought. It had grown into a giant with 207 TV and 188 radio affiliates, yearly net revenue of $159 million, 5,500 employees and 35 vice presidents,*and the cachet of being sued by the U.S. as a monopoly...
...work of art. And yet, as the script continues, long after it has made its moral point, to fondle a variety of sexual symbols and to finger the anatomical aspects of its subject, the moviegoer can hardly help wondering if the sociological study has not degenerated into the prurient peep...
Little Bo-Peep...
...Peep at the Window. No one, perhaps, in all Borgetto knew these things better than Antonina, the dark-eyed daughter of grizzled Angelo Polizzi, though she was only twelve years old. In a darkened room Antonina gazed in agony at the drawn slats on her window evening after evening as handsome young Giuseppe Pellerito strolled by on the Way of the Deluge. Were it not for her testy old father, the two might well have looked forward to marriage any spring, but Angelo had laid down the law: Giuseppe at 18 was too old for his daughter. Knowing this, Antonina...