Word: squeamishness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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some more squeamish Cliffies field the hall, their dates in tow. But most stayed and sought, with Ginsberg, "the thrill delicious," which might sometimes be merely "playing with myself unbeknownst to the entire population of Far Rockaway...
...threat becomes palpable. Across the horizon stretches a line of warriors clad in animal skins and necklaces of baboon teeth, wailing "Usuto! Usuto!" (Kill! Kill!) The first wave sacrifices itself to test British fire power; then on they come, wave after wave, lunging, hacking, dying. For all but the squeamish, it is a grisly good show, and the film's climax is visually and dramatically stunning-when the fierce Zulus, some 18 hours later, roar acknowledgment of their enemy's diehard courage and withdraw, shields raised in tribute...
Mixed Bag. If a housewife is squeamish about strangulation, there is a handful of books and writers that provide an adequately mixed bag of recipes for those of more modest ambitions. James Beard, author of everything from a basic cookbook to Cook It Outdoors, is a gifted milker of the cooking-boom...
During the first three scenes, Genet doesn't repeat himself enough to spoil his gamy jokes. If you aren't too squeamish, you will laugh when the Executioner (Frederick Q. Rice) reaches under the Whore-thief's dress and claims to have found a flashlight, bearskins and several pairs of socks in her "notorious Kangaroo pocket." If that kind of thing bothers you, stay home. There's plenty of it all the way through...
...time bicycle racing is no sport for the squeamish. Perilous and punishing, it promises lung-searing fatigue, bone-smashing crashes, and the kind of nasty guerrilla warfare among competitors better employed in the jungle. Racers have been known to ram each other off mountain curves, to strew tacks in the road behind them, to urinate into the wind so that it blows back in the eyes of their opponents. So taxing is the sport that few champions enjoy a long reign...