Word: uptightness
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...made himself rich. Guccione concedes that Hefner made skin magazines successful and quasi-respectable by photographing not tarts but the wholesome-looking girl next door. He patronizes Hefner for not moving with the times, for not seeing that the girl next door grew up, "is no longer uptight about nudity," and thus in Penthouse is pictured enjoying her own sensuality. As a photographer himself, Guccione is the best in the business at the narrow craft of what he calls "romanticizing the sexual encounter"; since the mystery used to be in what was concealed (but no longer is), Guccione...
...gracious hello." (Snort, snort.) "This is installation and repair service, Miss Tomlin speaking clearly into her mouthpiece. Who's calling, please. The A.M.A.? What's that stand for, Anna Maria Alberghetti? Oh, don't get so uptight. It's just a little joke. Not unlike Medicare...
...repressed body language of women in her audiences. "I see these very stiff, inhibited women who move and act so much like my character Mrs. Beasley, and I think it's criminal. This is what the culture has done to a lot of women-made them so uptight, so uncertain, so thwarted. It's a matter of power and powerlessness...
There remains a widespread tendency among the uptight to protect tender minds by censoring sources of information concerning the magnitude of sexual variation in the world at large, and historic figures in particular. A recent Italian television series on the life of Leonardo DaVinci provides an example of how history is managed. One episode concerned the young DaVinci and his friends being hauled in before the local inquisition. The English narration as seen in America described the case as "heresy," thereby protecting our American sensibilities from the dreadful historic facts of his well known homosexuality...
...uptight about catching mononucleosis, the social kiss [Feb. 7] can be an invaluable opportunity...