Word: sexualizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Admiring Hitler Jimmy had thought Hitler was right and President Roosevelt wrong about World War II ... To a young man like Jimmy, for whom so many things are unsettled, troubling, unresolved-not the least problem of which is his own personal sexual definition-Hitler was powerfully alluring ... The Nazis had a strong, decisive way of dealing with threats. They knew how to put an end to Jews, Negroes. The regimentation of Nazism was comforting; that everyone knew exactly who he was, where he belonged in the scheme of things, was reassuring to a young man whose family was always slipping...
...pregnancy filled him with horror. As he wrote to Oriana Fallaci: "I don't want to know what's in a woman's belly. Motherood disgusts me." Pasolini cultivated masculinity; he exercized every day, kept himself strong, virile-looking, tough. Yet he wanted to play the woman in his sexual encounters. Socialized into a completely dominating role, the Italian male may often fantasize a situation in which he is dominated. Pasolini acted out such fantasies in city slums, and projected them into his films...
...Pasolini was a martyr, he died for no cause. No one really knows who killed him, or why, but for the moment it appears to have been a killing motivated by sexual passions. The young boy who has confessed to the crime, "Pino" Pelosi, said he did it "because he (Pasolini) wanted to change roles. I said no, the agreement was that I got to be the man. So he hit me and called me a dirty pig. And then I didn't see anything any more and started hitting him and hitting him as hard as I could." Whether...
...films show the proletariat as merely a class to be manipulated. As a film-maker, and even more as a homosexual who could buy any boy he chose (and did so) Pasolini exploited the working classes. The night of his death, he picked up a boy to satisfy his sexual needs, took the kid out for dinner (Pasolini didn't eat) and then drove off with him in his Alfa 2000 to a private place. Ironically, Pasolini himself helped to perpetrate the prostitution he deplored...
...anticipatory excitement of going on an archaeological dig. You can usually count on a dramatic find, something that no other theater group is likely to be doing. In recent seasons, the Roundabout's venturesome founders, Gene Feist and Michael Fried, have offered playgoers a delectable comedy of sexual theatrics, Molnar's The Play's the Thing; Barrie's salute to the canny primacy of the female, What Every Woman Knows; and a world première of James Joyce's Dubliners steeped in Ireland's lyric grief. The level of performance has often been...