Word: bed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Freddy (Stockard Channing) is bored and neglected by the pair, whose constant bickering suggests that Freddy was just an excuse for them to marry each other. After an afternoon in bed with first Oscar, then Nicky, she finally explodes in a vaudeville-style rage, dumping a sinkful of dirty plates and ten pounds of bird food on the two men, who are wrestling on the floor, ignoring her until she screams, "I'm going to give it all away! To charity!" Nicky's rejoinder--"Let's not go off half-cocked, now." Her snappy comeback--"The scales have fallen from...
Whore 2: "Only in bed, kiddo"), but it doesn't help. Indeed, it seems almost superfluous...
Died. Richard P. Loving, 42, a Virginia construction worker whose marriage to his Indian-Negro childhood sweetheart led to a landmark civil rights ruling; in an auto accident; in Caroline County, Va. Routed from bed at 2 a.m. five weeks after their 1958 marriage, the Lovings were sentenced to a year in jail or 25 years of exile from the state for violating Virginia's antimiscegenation laws. After five hardscrabble years in Washington, D.C., they chose to return home and fight the statute, winning in 1967 the Supreme Court's ruling in Lovings v. Virginia that voided...
...smiling-although, said a friend, if someone interrupted his reverie, "he immediately began a harangue." As a classroom lecturer, he would stutter and stammer for at least a quarter of an hour before hitting his oratorical stride. Contemporaries loved to talk about the night that he got out of bed absorbed in some theory and wandered 15 miles in his dressing gown before thinking to wonder where he was. Altogether, Adam Smith was scarcely the man to whom an ambitious moneymaker would turn for guidance on the intensely practical questions of how prices, profits and wages are determined...
...whole concoction into an unlikely context, usually the heroic fantasy world of the shlemeil. What he does is magnify the possibilities of the social banana peel. A Jewish herd blowing a date in the Bronx is one thing, but a Jewish herd posing as a Cuban dictator in bed with a sultry revolutionary who tells him he looks a lot like a Jewish herd she used to know is quite another...