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Word: toed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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If approved by the high courts, Thompson's policy would further secularize American life. In Sioux Falls this Christmas, pending the forthcoming federal ruling from St. Louis, youngsters in some assemblies will be singing Christmas music as usual, perhaps for the last time. But for Justin Florey and his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Caroling Crisis | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

Dachau: 1936. The sun is hellish. Two men in prison garb stand in front of an electrified fence. Max (Richard Gere) and Horst (David Dukes) must carry heavy rocks from one side of the prison yard to the other, drop them in a pile and then carry them back. This...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Walpurgisnacht | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

Bent may be regarded as pro-gay in that it displays no social or moral qualms about anyone's being gay. But Playwright Sherman is not proselytizing. He wants to show us the brute cost of survival, the deep need and sustaining force of human affection in dire adversity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Walpurgisnacht | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

Bent does not begin in the death camp, but on a hung-over morning after a dissolute evening of booze, cocaine and sadomasochistic pastimes. The apartment of Max and his dancer-lover Rudy (David Marshall Grant) is broken in on by Storm Troopers. The two flee but are subsequently captured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Walpurgisnacht | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

Throughout the play, Gere handles the shadings of emotion superbly, especially in a scene in which he and Dukes stand several feet apart, not facing each other, and go through an explicit verbal depiction of oral sex all the way to its climax. Bent is not "entertainment" as the word...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Walpurgisnacht | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

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