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It can take a number of forms: the prurient (as in much of Freud's), the haunting (ditto), the sordid-poetic (Kraft-Ebbing, for example), the pregnant-random (as in much of criminology).
Even though most readers found Chatterbox's curiosity about the racial covenant on Bush's former residence to be prurient and irresponsible, Chatterbox continues to desire a fuller explanation from the candidate about it.
A new biography of Billy Tipton--an obscure jazzman who was revealed, only at death, to have been a jazzwoman--elevates its subject into the "pantheon of legendary women who have successfully passed as men" (Holly Brubach, the New York Times Book Review ). Middlebrook, a professor at Stanford, uses Tipton to support the postmodernist contention that gender is a historic construction, but critics mostly wax prurient.
95 a month to view profiles of the models), hawk his forthcoming book ( Naked Power ), and direct prurient visitors to his various porn sites.
All along, the Globe , usually the most prurient of the tabloids, has taken it upon itself to be the voice of the Clinton administration.