Word: prurients
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...profound indifference and contempt with which it is met. Apathy on the part of both the public and the police means that the vast majority of these murders go unsolved. When these deaths are covered by the media at all, it is with a sensationalism that is by turns prurient and repulsed. The Trans Day of Remembrance is an attempt to counteract the dehumanization of trans people, and the brutal devaluation of trans lives, through a collective display of mourning that marks these lives as valuable, significant, and terrible in their loss...
...FOOFs (Friends of Old Films) like Yours Truly, the 75th anniversary class portrait of dozens of Oscar-winning actors was pleasant, poignant, sometimes prurient. Since the excuse for these reunions is to see how the waxworks look decades after their eminence (Kirk Douglas: chiseled; Jennifer Jones: scary; Ernest Borgnine: exactly the same as 50 years ago, when he was the thug in "From Here to Eternity"), I wondered why the producers bothered to include recent winners. Where were Elizabeth Taylor, Jane Fonda, Lisa "She's Everywhere Else" Minnelli? And could Joan Fontaine call a truce with her sister Olivia...
...erotic glow of red lamps clasped in the fangs of ornate snake-candelabra, or coyly veiled in rice paper (wasn’t it Woody Allen who used a red light bulb as a sexual expedient in Annie Hall?). On the far wall hang paintings of frolicking figures in prurient postures, Matissean dancers in revelry. Overhead, Starck-sleek fans of brushed steel revolve with drawing-room languor, conspicuously at odds with the clamor and chatter below. And diffusing throughout the room, holding the whole tenuously cohesive mess together, there is slinky drum-and-bass music to vegetate...
...notion that the royals should pay taxes. And still smarting from the scandal of Edward and Mrs. Simpson, she in turn demanded of family members the highest standards of morality and behavior. So the sexual, social and financial shenanigans of the past two decades, floodlit by a prurient and deference-be-damned press, strained her relationship with the younger royals. When the extramarital affairs of the Prince and Princess of Wales became common gossip, both got a dressing-down. "[The Queen Mother] came to feel that Diana was a very silly girl and had a poor sense of duty...
...last few years, critics have begun to dismiss many of the prurient and personally vindictive accusations that plagued Lang. Colin McArthur’s book on The Big Heat, Tom Gunning’s new book on Lang and a recent retrospective of Lang’s work at England’s National Film Institute, are just a few examples of his rehabilitation. Harvard is also doing its part to give Lang the credit that he deserves with this new film series at the HFA, with the assistance of the Goethe Institut Boston. I highly recommend that everyone...