Word: bedded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Procrustes, a character in Greek mythology, stretched or lopped the limbs off unsuspecting wayfarers to make them fit the bed in his lair. Texas Businessman Charles McLaren, 40, has an only slightly less ingenious plan for solving housing problems. His proposal: the sleeping module, or MAC1 (for mini-accommodation center), a 4-ft. by 4-ft. by 8-ft. plastic capsule fitted out like a miniature hotel room...
Eventually, he plans to try marketing capsules for use in college dorms, truck stops, airports and even ski resorts. He explains, "You go to Vail to ski, not pay $ 120 a night to sleep in a king-size bed. If you stay in a module for even $30 a night, you have a lot left over for ski tickets...
...same evening that Noon meets Mrs. Johanna Keighley (nee Von Hebenitz), wife of a doctor in Boston and mother of two sons, she invites him into her bed. The next afternoon she does so again. Writes Lawrence: "I am not going to open the door of Johanna's room, not until Mr. Noon opens it himself. I've been caught that way before. I have opened the door for you, and the moment you gave your first squeal in rushed the private detective you had kept in the background." This is a direct reference to the problems...
...happen when a shaky personality forfeits her identity to celebrity. Fred is, on the other hand, a passive narcissist. He takes his attractiveness for granted, breaks hearts out of thoughtlessness rather than malice, and has developed no antibodies against lovesickness. When Rosemary eventually boots him out of her bed, about all the sympathy one can muster is a facetious "Poor baby...
...daily responsibility of their young daughter. She looks for additional solace in psychotherapy, satisfaction in a series of perhaps deliberately ill-chosen affairs, fulfillment in anything creative that is handy. She acts in a local theater, doing brave combat with the role of Blanche DuBois and going to bed with the director. Leaving her, he carries the expensive leather suitcases - "the two prettiest things I ever saw" - Lucy gave him. "One of the small misfortunes of being a rich girl, and she'd known it all her life, was that people would often exaggerate their pleasure when you gave...