Word: voyeurs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...highly sensual implications of big-beat dancing have some psychiatrists worried. Says one: "It's sick sex turned into a spectator sport." The voyeur aspects are considerable. Hollywood A-Go-Go, one of the six nationally aired rock 'n' roll TV shows (including ABC's Shindig and NBC's Hullabaloo) that have debuted in the past year, features a line of young nubile blondes whose dancing would bring a blush to the cheeks of a burlesque stripper...
...Arthur Miller's self-revelation have died. The author's narrow face stared at you from the newspapers and magazines before the New York opening almost 17 months ago, and with his name came, whispered, Marilyn Monroe, now the late Mrs. Miller. So you felt like a privileged voyeur when you took your seat in the Lincoln Center Repertory Company's temporary theatre in Washington, especially when you learned that the play's director was a character in the play--one of the bad guys...
With the loneliness of a long-distance voyeur, Alda has been spying on Sands's pay-and-playtimes through binoculars. His priggish rectitude makes him inform her landlord. Thrown out of her apartment (the setting is San Francisco), she storms into his. After that, they fight, kiss, fight, split up, fight, make up, and fight. The stage, like the plot, might seem bare except that each lover introduces the other to a secret love. He is seduced by his body, she is ravished by her mind. Act III is devoted to a hilarious suicide pact in which despair gets...
Rarely since James Joyce have the levels of puzzlement been laid on so thick. The "stations" of the title are, among other things: 1) a series of 14 Manhattan subway stations, describing a cruciform route, compulsively traveled one night by a homosexual voyeur who is fleeing from a grafting vice-squad detective; 2) the 14 Stations of the Cross; 3) the nightly rounds of a nurse; 4) the comfort stations at the subway stops. Every step of the book is dense in meanings and associations, helped on by rhymes, incantatory metrical effects, and puns that ring with a wild echolalia...
JUBB, by Keith Waterhouse. Through the weird alchemy of talent and restraint, British Novelist Waterhouse (Billy Liar) turns the story of a lonely voyeur into a novel with both compassion and comedy...