Word: stags
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...couples or as many as a dozen participate: extra towels are laid out, for there is "a constant traffic into and out of the bathtub and shower" (swingers are fanatics about personal cleanliness); candles or blue lights may be arranged; and sometimes a projector is set up to show stag films. Drinks are poured to ease tension, which is high. Swingers, it turns out, are not really liberated; they act "as if they are at a high school prom where no couple wishes to be the first one on the dance floor." Finally, after a decision is made to swing...
Three shows in the past three weeks are instructive examples. Stag Movie is a flea-brained bedroom farce played in the nude. It is not without its funny moments, but the yawns are more frequent simply because Oh! Calcutta! preempted the field, and was and is the best of the barest. A rock musical, Soon, a kind of hairless Hair, lasted exactly three performances. What was wrong with it? Soon was Late...
...terms of profits on invested capital, grime pays even more handsomely for producers of stag films for the home. The male "actors" in these movies are often paid nothing-they do it for the sport-the women usually get no more than $25 or $35 for the whole show. The biggest expense is processing the film. From a single master copy, the producer can make 250,000 prints at a cost of about $2 to $4 each. Black-and-white stag movies retail for about $25; in color they cost...
...bumptious town boys and chooses by default the widowed, middle-aged teacher. Shaughnessy warns her: "I only taught you about Byron and Beethoven and Captain Blood. I'm not one of them fellows meself." They marry anyway, and her wedding night is your standard virgin v. tired stag disappointment. Neither the audience nor Father Collins can mistake the meaning of her persistent frustrated sighs...
...Halftime isn't a stag party," Pittenger said...