Word: voyeur
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...from his American employers, known only as The Service. He has stolen enough to permit a life of ease. But there is no such word as leisure in the Tarden lexicon. A compulsive wanderer, he prowls the dry surfaces of the globe, uprooting lives and unearthing scandal. Half voyeur, half behavioral experimenter, he sees himself as a psychosexual conquistador, forever searching for-what? Even Tarden cannot...
...born a prince. Bounced from home and privilege by the revolution, he studied at Cambridge, and then, under the pseudonym V. Irisin, wrote in Russian a number of novels "of not altogether displeasing preciosity" while living in Paris as an exile. These books took such themes as a voyeur's cruel peep at blindness, a beheading, and the defenestration of a chess master. Vadim Vadimych emigrated to the U.S. and taught Russian literature at Quirn University. Transforming himself by an astounding feat of linguistic ability into a master of English, he began to turn out a second shelf...
...another case, a guilt-ridden professor unconsciously turned his eyes into "target organs" for disease by becoming a voyeur (as a relief from a bad sexual relationship with his wife) and by wishing for the death of his father, who had serious eye problems. To Dr. Silverman the predictive clues were all there, including the fact that the professor's eyes would ache badly when he read pornography or attended a sex exhibition. But his doctor missed the clues, and the professor is now blind from detached retinas in both eyes...
...Maine, the jointly owned Portland Express and Press Herald swiveled around 180° from their previous support and called for impeachment. The small Central Maine Morning Sentinel in Waterville declared it was impossible to read the transcripts "without feeling like an embarrassed and unwitting voyeur...
Mishima takes Japan from the late '30s through the war and the postwar period into the perplexed affluence of the '50s. Eventually, Honda becomes joylessly rich. He degenerates from spiritual voyeur into Peeping Tom-a transformation reflecting Mishima's own contempt for the vulgarization and materialism of postwar Japan. As the novel ends, Honda, who has begun to sound like a Japanese Humbert Humbert in his pursuit of his Thai princess-now a student in Japan-secretly watches her in a lesbian embrace. Then Honda's mansion at the foot of Mount Fuji burns...