Word: aphrodisiac
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...these stories are cautionary: the child who is missing at the supermarket only to turn up in the rest room, where two kidnapers have cut the girl's hair and changed her clothes. Some are funny, like the student survey that "discovers" that green M&M's are an aphrodisiac, and some maliciously lead to racial stereotyping. Brunvand, a professor of English at the University of Utah, sees little humor or truth in the 1980 rumor that Southeast Asian immigrants in California were capturing and eating pets. Yet many people want to believe such tales. "I could run ads with...
...been awaiting a writer to transcend the genre and give it a new legitimacy. Clive Barker may be the man. He is as morbid as Stephen King, but unlike his American counterpart, this 33-year-old writer from Liverpool is witty, unpredictable and concise. In these five tales, an aphrodisiac turns the world into a monkey house; a vagrant with a mass of knotted material seems to be playing with nothing less than DNA; a palace is built to entice Satan up from hell; hands rebel against the minds that move them; the dead and the living couple...
...hardly be called indiscreet for ransacking them. After all, the diarist himself believed that his record of snobbism and social vaulting, of erotic triumphs and humiliations would make "amusing reading" someday. He was correct, but the most remarkable passages are not those of the invert. Fame was Beaton's aphrodisiac, and if heterosexuality was required for a brilliant conquest, well then, he would try that costume for a while. When he met Greta Garbo after World War II, he energetically seduced her. "I am so unexpectedly violent and have such unlicensed energy when called upon," he boasted to himself...
...popular because it's billed as a cheery aphrodisiac--people who have taken it tend to moon about holding hands and professing their oneness with all things ambulatory and the more shapely inanimate objects. Two female acquaintances of mine, while under its spell, came up to me with sparks in their eyes and told me, "I love you." This happens to me a lot, but most people would be taken aback, and would suspect such tenders. However, XTC is a relatively benign drug, and a few hours suffice to fade its apostles back down to our usual condition, where...
...cite Bolivia, which has an estimated 500 hyacinth macaws. In 1980-81 Bolivia exported 800 of the birds, each worth up to $5,000; wildlife experts believe that most were caught in Brazil. Sudan, which has fewer than 100 white rhinos, exports scores of horns annually. Prized as an aphrodisiac in the Orient, horns fetch...