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...This is a very emotional issue," Buckley said earlier this month, "Handguns are phallic symbols and many people feel threatened when you talk about banning them. They feel you're talking about castration...

Author: By Peter J. Ferrara, | Title: Should the State Ban Handguns? | 10/29/1975 | See Source »

...curiousity, How To Pick Up Girls. And plenty of good advice, too--if we judge by the audience of the London Madhouse Stunt Show last Sunday night--an audience that was reduced to a malleable jelly of shrieking girls by what seemed to be one endless train of obscenities, phallic jokes and frontal nudity...

Author: By Ta-kuang Chang, | Title: Syphilitic Vaudeville | 10/9/1975 | See Source »

...host to move to D, where he is cut off from both telephones. Phonemanship is important too. An aggressive visitor should ask to make a phone call, settle in at the host's desk (violation of territory), and finger the phone confidently, as it is a strong phallic power symbol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: How to Succeed, 1975 | 9/15/1975 | See Source »

Women had musical ability but seldom on the right instruments; parents liked girls to play the piano, not phallic bass guitars. Rock was blues electrified, rough music from back of the barn. English groups who adopted the sound in the late '60s did little to improve the image with guitar smashing and satanic prancing. When 16-year-old Singer Maria Muldaur proudly brought home her first recording contract, her mother immediately tore it up. Says Maria: "She was afraid it would lead me into white slavery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock 'n' Roll's Leading Lady | 12/16/1974 | See Source »

...rock era had merely hinted at, Jimi Hendrix delivered right onstage. His hair frizzled as though by electricity, his scarves and sashes bobbing over sequined vests and velvet jackets in foppish disarray, he looked like a tripped-out savage impersonating a Carnaby Street dandy. His guitar was a throbbing phallic extension that he would caress, thrust at the audience, then set on fire at evening's end. The music was raw blues blasted out at maximum volume. Bursting on the rock scene in 1967 at the height of the acid-rock movement, Hendrix was a sensation: the first black...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Hendrix Tapes | 9/2/1974 | See Source »

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