Word: phallicism
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...connection was everywhere evident to observers of the Playboy phenomenon. Examining the infrastructure of the Bunny costume worn by waitresses at the Playboy Clubs of the 60s, Norman Mailer called it ?a phallic brassiere - each breast looked like the big bullet on the front bumper of a Cadillac...
...mouth, he exclaimed, ?What?s a joint like this doing in a nice girl like you??? At the time I was tickled to have received $50 for 43 words. Today, I look back in chagrin, to see I was once so naive, I didn?t know ?joint? had a phallic meaning. More embarrassment: glancing at that page in the July 1967 issue, I see that the word ?Richard?s? is written next to the joke - in my mother?s handwriting...
Willie's instrument of change is a fat and irredeemably nerdy, irredeemably innocent lad, Thurman Merman (Brett Kelly), with whom Willie moves in. There's a purity about Thurman, earnestly carving Willie a rather phallic pickle for a present, that finally reaches Willie's stony soul. And ours...
...more likely. "The most important thing about John Kennedy," his biographer Richard Reeves says, "is that he thought he was going to die young, and he could not wait his turn." Behind J.F.K.'s Eros--the skirt chasing, the virile New Frontier rhetoric, the pledge to shoot a big phallic rocket at the moon by decade's end--was Thanatos...
...animals and many other everyday objects were also supposedly ridden by witches to their gatherings. Brooms also sometimes had a protective function against witches. In Tyrolean tradition, for example, a broom placed against a door would bar a witch from moving through it. As to the question of the phallic symbol, yes, one can read it that way, I suppose, although some of the other objects (e.g., the churn) might be even better candidates. Certainly its presentation in well-known contexts, such as Dürer’s image of the witch on her way to Walpurgis, allows...