Word: perverting
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...Maxi squirmed in her Calvin Klein jockstrap. They'd added a new dimension to her sex life. Was she a pervert?" The question could only be put by Judith Krantz, back again with her patented blend of eavesdropping and name dropping. Her heroine, Maxi Amberville ("her surpassingly green eyes, the precise color of Imperial Jade"), is the customary flaring, rich, tousled, naughty, gorgeous protean number. This time she is a publishing vicereine with a field of ex-husbands, a bewitching mother, a homosexual brother, a heterosexual near-blind brother, and an eleven-year-old daughter by magnificent, "fascinatingly brooding, darkly...
...what? I got an 800 on the SATs and I'm an alcoholic and a pervert...
...time. In fact, to identify and confront the Action Man would constitute the destruction of a time-honored myth, like Bigfoot, or the Loch Ness monster. A captured Bigfoot is just another mammal; a captured Nessie is just another reptile; an exposed Action Man would be simply just another pervert...
...Bowie, Boy George, and Harvey Fierstein are marshalled to support his belief that the sexes are converging, but Engel blows it in a big was when he use Prunce as an example of androgyny: Prince is not interested in becoming a woman: he is a 5'4" flamboyant pansexual pervert who would make it his motorcycle if he could reach the throttle at the same time...
Madden and Nissen apprehend the world not simply or sympathetically but indirectly through a theory of hierarchical oppositions. Other, like-minded characters in the novel agree that it's okay to be poor or to be a pervert so as long as one is genuinely a reverse snob and can believe that being at the bottom of "the ladder" is just as good as being at the top. Of course, Mailer's characters cannot accept any such proposition for long: the inevitable resurgence of desire--for status, normalcy, wealth, or what-not-cancels the values of the day before...