Word: bedded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Being a business woman, my reading time is limited to reading in bed. As soon as TIME arrives I put it on the bedside table, and it takes me about four nights to complete-front to back. It would be my one choice if I had to give up all other magazines...
What made some people unhappy about his new show was that much of it bristled with sordid details (e.g., a couple embracing in a child's bed, under a stuffed deer's head), and that the stories Koerner told were unrelievedly grim. In one painting (The Tie) an ugly, starkly naked young couple stood back to back in a puddle, holding hands as if against their will, staring dazedly into the encroaching darkness. Draped around the husband's weary neck hung a tie decorated with a pin-up girl. "Don't think I am making...
...life, Marcel Proust spent the greater part of his waking time ransacking his memory and writing down what he found with mingled love and horror. When he died in 1922, he left a mountain of legends about himself-of the fabulous invalid who nearly always wrote in bed, with his manuscript propped on his knees; of the Paris room whose walls were lined with cork to deaden all sound of the world outside. Besides his monumental Remembrance of Things...
...imaginary notes from the diary of the harried undergraduate underground organizer. "Wednesday. Enervated this morning. I think I am being poisoned by my enemies . . . To Students' Clinic in Hygiene Building, where examined after registering under false name . . . Retired early. Arranged some pillows to appear like sleeping form in my bed, spent the night on floor underneath...
...ecstatic. Once an apartment was rented and furniture bought, but his self-doubts forced him to turn back. In one entry he sadly and ironically remarks that his fiancee "wants the average: a comfortable home, an interest on my part in the [family's] factory, good food, bed at eleven, central heating"-just the things the author of The Metamorphosis could not give a woman...