Word: aphrodisiacs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Mirabella -- have gathered at a swank Manhattan eatery to get a close look at the founder of the Body Shop, Roddick's fast- growing chain of cosmetics stores. She is telling them how she learned to make oud, the molasses-thick perfume worn by Bedouin women for its aphrodisiac properties. "We'll show you how to make it," a group of women in Oman finally agreed after a week of cajoling, "but first you have to show us your pubic hair." And that's how Roddick ended up with her pants at half-mast, surrounded by Bedouin women (who pluck...
...Volcano Lover, her fifth work of fiction, is a mild cerebral aphrodisiac. It is the sort of book that Sontag would probably call determinedly middlebrow. Her publisher, eager to start a buzz, compares it to "the postmodern potboilers of Umberto Eco and A.S. Byatt...
Valentine's Day is a major event at Averof. A special menu, called "Lover's Feast" or "Aphrodisiac," is created for the occasion. The multi-course meal includes a salad labeled "Lovers Only...
Raymond believes that olive oil is the key to the effectiveness of his food as an aphrodisiac...
...Nancy Friday (Simon & Schuster; $22). In her latest attempt to capture America's sexual zeitgeist, Friday maintains that women's erotic fantasies spurn comfortable settings, clean sheets and non-felons in favor of German shepherds, enemas and shackles. The author may have intended to provide an aphrodisiac with her pseudoscientific survey, but it comes off with all the zing of an affidavit -- and one that lacks the ring of truth...