Word: scorpio
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...American Cinema) Andy Warhol's "Study of Sexual Frigidity," and Kenneth Anger's "Scorpio...
...week or so ago I went among the sleek, naked towers to see some Kenneth Anger films. Anger is best known for Fireworks, a gay dream film featuring him projecting a roman candle from his fly and lighting it. Scorpio Rising (1963), a later work, is a slightly premature pop culture lick featuring motorcycles, an overripe rock soundtrack, and genitals. The genitals are only there for a couple of frames. But the audience at M.I.T. was very fond of them. Especially a group of aging motorcyclists sitting next...
...genitals made this group's day. They nervously sat through Eaux d' Artifice, a film disappointingly about fountains. The old gentleman, who apparently had seen Scorpio Rising before, attempted to quiet the group's unrest. "Never you mind," he told his followers, squinting down a neighboring dress with his one good eye, "They'll be on that screen (snicker) in the Lord's good time." The religious reference disturbed a young rebel next to him, who sank back in his seat combing his 1956 ducktail, and angrily staring at the more Modish haircuts of the collegians...
...Scorpio's orgy scene finally sprang on the silver screen. The old man jumped up and down in his seat, "They're a-coming, they're a-coming," he wheezed. The genitals shot was in ten seconds. He was up on his feet, treacherously supporting the spindly legs bowed by years of riding. Tears came to his eyes. His Polident began to loosen. His friends frantically pulled the zippers on their storm cuffs back and forth until...
Last June a third rocket carried improved instruments above the atmosphere. Again they showed the X-ray source glowing powerfully in Scorpio. This time the scientists' report was much less guarded. There could be no doubt that something was there, but no one yet knows what...