Word: peepshows
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...rock-'n'-roll-playing jukebox for the Teddy Boy set, a maze, a miniature train and pony rides for the children. While the ladies can load up at the souvenir shop on bric-a-brac bearing the ducal coat of arms, the men can attend a peepshow called "Ten Beautiful Models in Color and 3-D." Finally, for the benefit of all, there is the duke himself, always around to greet his "guests," to pose for pictures, sign autographs and even judge skiffle contests. "One is," says the duke matter-of-factly, "one of the attractions...
...glory of Mao Tse-tung's regime; and that if they venture to comment unfavourably on anything they see, no breath of that criticism will reach the millions behind the iron curtain. They presumably think this is a price worth paying in order to see Peking's peepshow...
...Peepshow (by F. Tennyson Jesse & H. M. Harwood) used an English love-triangle murder case, not in order to raise goose pimples, but to offer a slow-motion, 13-scene biography of the hanged but possibly innocent wife. The whole thing was so soporific that the opening-night audience could hear A Pin drop into limbo; there was no second performance...
...Author-Playwright Jesse (A Pin to See the Peepshow) is reminded that TIME is a newsmagazine...
...occasionally tried his hand at religious subjects. To the orthodox, the results have usually seemed artistically outrageous, if not downright blasphemous. Epstein's phallephoric Adam was denounced as pornography; his Jacob and the Angel, billed as "the world's greatest shocker," went on tour in an artistic peepshow; G. K. Chesterton took one look at his square, squat Ecce Homo, then thundered at it as "one of the greatest insults to religion I've ever seen...