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Word: bed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...switch schools at the last minute-coupled with an unexpected back-to-campus movement by upperclassmen newly eager for the convenience of dorms-colleges wound up with too many bodies and too few bunks. Some results: barracks-style living, in which students are forced to double up or bed down in hastily converted storerooms or noisy antechambers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Campus Crunch | 10/3/1977 | See Source »

...that she has been unfaithful, he punishes her by sodomizing her. During the punishment, they realize that their daughter has been watching. They talk about it complacently. They talk about everything complacently, too bored to even acknowledge their anguish. They try to relieve the tedium with new positions in bed. But the husband remains inert. "If we were rich. I'd pay to get it," his wife tell him without expression. "But we're not," he replies. She mutters dully: "We're sure...

Author: By Mark T. Whitaker, | Title: From 'Breathless' to Aimless. | 9/30/1977 | See Source »

...emotion through the endless technical annoyances of film making. Most of the time this worked in Goodbar, but not always. Once, Brooks remembers, he wanted a look of pleasurable anticipation to cross her face as she came out of a bathroom and approached a man who lay in bed. Keaton tried it a couple of times, but came up empty. She could not find the emotion by herself, and since the bed was off-camera, there was no actor there for her to respond...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Love, Death and La - De - Dah | 9/26/1977 | See Source »

...measure of students' contentedness, or lack thereof, is the size of each student's room. Almost all are in singles, some of which are two-room suites. The only students who seem really unhappy with the accommodations are students like Karen Kaufman, whose room barely has space for a bed, a desk, and a closet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Room With a View | 9/26/1977 | See Source »

...last morning of basking and soul into Sun and little Zora for luncheon (all three of us in the bed) and we put the earrings upon her ears, and the bracelets upon her hands and (Caresse) gives her a pair of lace pretties and I perfume and she is wearing all her amulets and has added new tattoo marks in our honor and I wonder what the people in the hotel think...

Author: By Diana R. Laing, | Title: Sherry and Schopenhauer | 9/26/1977 | See Source »

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