Word: queered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...indeed a saint. But he is a watch-charm saint, a petty demon whose villainy is on so small a scale that its very earnestness is laughable. The crimes that this Narcissus drops like blossoms in the pool of his own image are no worse than sneak thievery and queer rolling...
...shock. (I"II admit it took a few minutes' chat with the naked Ginsberg to realize shock was hardly his goal.) Actually he finds it far more beautiful to sympathize--and this is how he treats most of what is ugly: the junkie, the leper, the whore, the queer...
...this favor, anyway. Keep them off. For they hem me in from all sides now. They put in my mouth the taste of darkness. They give me queer feelings, they get me all balled...
Like all satire, Costigan's humor dwells on the difference between appearance and reality, but the appearances he mocks are obviously hollow, Costigan thinks it's rich that muscular, America-firster Emil is a queer, that steely, sultry Mavis always leaves her door unlocked in hotels, and that shuffling, knock-kneed Edward is the sexual object of both public demigods. So, stars are phonies, so what...
...stop, for Clacton's invaders belonged to London's two hostile teen cults: the "Mods" (for Moderns), foppishly dressed youths who drive souped-up, chrome-plated scooters; and the "Rockers," who wear black boots, black leather jackets, drive powerful motorcycles, and scorn the Mods as "queer." The rumble erupted on the second...