what does "striptease joint"mean? At 12:30 P.M. he had been at the Dallas News, placing weekend advertisements for his two striptease joints, yet he hadn't bothered to walk over and see the motorcade four blocks away. His professed admiration of Kennedy, like Oswald's simulated Marxism, was a patent fraud, a figment of self-delusion designed to dignify his motive. In reality neither of them had the civic conscience of a cat. Each man's absorption with his ravaged inner self eclipsed any other interest; each was terribly alone.