![]() ![]() Their argument was that his queerness was essential to his appeal, not a detriment, and his membership in an “oppressed sexual minority” added political and social significance to his life and work, qualifying him as an icon of gay liberation.īarris’s supernatural story came at just the right time to capture an unease those who grew up idolizing Dean as the ideal man and lover now felt about his deviant sexuality. At the same time, in those same years, Dean’s image had been adopted by the gay community, and gay newspapers and magazines carried articles by culture critics like Parker Tyler and Jack Babuscio discussing his sexuality in the context of the push for gay rights in the post-Stonewall era. It was during this period that stories of James Dean’s sexual involvement with men saw print and briefly entered public awareness, confirming growing rumors about Dean’s sexuality that had circulated sub rosa for two decades. ![]() That period, 1974-1975, was an important one because it coincided with the twentieth anniversary of James Dean’s death and the publication of four biographies of Dean, to be followed soon after by an NBC TV-movie. I cannot prove this one way or another, but you cannot generate the most popular American English swear words with these locks… so that’s probably not a coincidence.Now here is where the trouble come in. This seems like a valid answer for both Master Lock and WordLock’s letter selection. It seemed like Master Lock may have been trying to make it impossible to spell curse words. Odd Letter Distribution HypothesisĪfter publishing the last analysis some members of the room escape community proposed a hypothesis about the odd letter distribution on those Master Locks: It’s on the Master Lock post if you’re interested. Analysis Methodology & Column ExplanationĪbsolutely everything about this analysis and its outputs conforms to the same information presented in the last letter lock analysis, so I won’t rehash it. The further right you move, the less useful the words generally are (and the farthest right is mostly nonsense). These are the best words that the analysis found. The left-most column contains 1,652 core English words. What Words Can This Distribution Generate? While the remaining three lines are gibberish, it’s still a nifty and thoughtful feature as the lock looks cool with all of those words on its face.
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