Word: label
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pressagent's dream. There are Pop Singer and Composer John Phillips, 37, his first wife, Michelle Phillips, 29, and his second missus, South African Actress Genevieve Waite, 26, all making music for their "family label," Paramour Records. No hanky-panky about it either. Although Phillips, who with Michelle, Cass Elliot, and Denny Doherty founded the Mamas and the Papas singing group in 1965, likes to call his life-style with a giggle "a ménage à trois," the relationship seems to be purely commercial. Michelle and Genevieve are capital investments. "There's something about me that makes...
...thirds of this one-man show-a toilet-training routine, assorted scatology, corrosively Jewish anti-Semitic byplay-could no more find its way into print in most publications now than when Bruce first delivered it in the '50s and '60s. Most supper-club managers would still label it as "sick...
Jacket: to label someone...
...trouble procrastination may incur, delay can often inspire and revive a creative soul. Jean Kerr, author of many successful novels and plays, says that she reads every soup-can and jamjar label in her kitchen before settling down to her typewriter. Many a writer focuses on almost anything but his task-for example, on the Coast and Geodetic Survey of Maine's Frenchman Bay and Bar Harbor, stimulating his imagination with names like Googins Ledge, Blunts Pond, Hio Hill and Burnt Porcupine, Long Porcupine, Sheep Porcupine and Bald Porcupine islands...
...nudity and sex then, only reinforce this theme, for "anything goes" in the hero's view. The label of "gross and lewd" seems a misnomer to the almost visually boring scene of a girl strapped nude to a chair for twenty long minutes. The sexual act itself is performed so perfunctorily (in a record 27 seconds in one showing) that those titillated couldn't have progressed beyond what the hero remembers as his own eighth grade attitude towards sex: getting off on National Geographic pics of naked African women...