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  • "If you founded a hedge fund, when you sold it you were treated worse than if you owned a peep-show business," said John Raffaelli , a Democratic fund-raiser and lobbyist for the hedge-fund industry.

    Financiers Switch to GOP Brody Mullins 2011

  • But most people are going to tune in for a peep-show window into power-grabbing mendacity and murderously nasty doings.

    Ask Matt: FX (Lights Out, Archer), Game of Thrones, Southland and More! 2011

  • A sort of “Striptease 101,” the seven-week crash course in all things bump-and-grind is far removed from an employment audition at some sleazy peep-show emporium.

    Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat 2008

  • The entrance to the Mexican's place was a single narrow door in between the entrances to a bar and a peep-show.

    red dust Ryn Cricket 2010

  • "Gallopers can get killed," says I, "but not sitting with their mouths open staring at a peep-show."

    The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010

  • THE FRUSTRATED NEWS PRODUCER -- having already figured out the incredibly obvious ending of this story -- simply shakes his head and sighs, wondering to himself why he didn't choose a more noble profession -- such as peep-show attendant.

    Chez Pazienza: Welcome to My M. Nightmare 2010

  • Your customer service work flow will become so efficient that it will make JetBlue's Twitter program look like a peep-show for the blind.

    Neal Rodriguez: Mobile Apps Which Keep Business Owners from Pumping Gas 2009

  • Through tiny portholes we can see the wires and wheels of this peep-show contraption, and at the bottom a glass ramp, a chute and a red ball.

    Gifts That Keep On Giving 2008

  • THE FRUSTRATED NEWS PRODUCER -- having already figured out the incredibly obvious ending of this story -- simply shakes his head and sighs, wondering to himself why he didn't choose a more noble profession -- such as peep-show attendant.

    Chez Pazienza: Welcome to My M. Nightmare 2008

  • This peep-show (for I can call it nothing else) was at the same time so inexplicable and so ludicrous, that, to avoid shocking the feelings of a devout-looking woman who was praying near it by an

    The Englishwoman in America 2007

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