Word: bedded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...author married Selznick in 1930 and assures us that until then, David's father put him to bed nightly. The Mayers and Selznicks were among Hollywood's pilgrim families, and to judge from Irene Selznick's recollection, her father was its Cotton Mather. He preached the doctrine of sound business practices, quality without ostentation and respectability. The best parts of A Private View deal with the '20s, when moguls were old-fashioned family men who made sure that their values got into their pictures. Selznick gracefully catches the small-town quality about the Hollywood...
This vision of Harvard-sex-as-mystical-brain-noise has a latter-day proponent in the form of Nicholas Gagarin '70. In a loosely autobiographical novel called Windsong, published during Gagarin's senior year, the narrator spends a considerable amount of time in bed with one Radcliffe woman or another, and each encounter produces a new disquisition on what it all means...
...always beautiful to spend the night with a girl in a little narrow bed. Because you have to squeeze rather tightly to fit, and neither of you can get very comfortable or sleep very well; but that is the way it should be. Because you are not there to be comfortable and sleep well. You are there in order to come for a moment into this person's life, to reach out in whatever way you can, and to be together. And if the bed is narrow and you have to squeeze, well, that's just...
While Harvard's new campus-wide student government is just starting out, many students at the University of Pennsylvania are trying to put theirs to bed...
Wilson gives glimpses of his own bed. Although rotund and stodgy, he never lacked for lovers. He had a reputation as a philanderer. In 1946 he married his fourth and last wife, the aristocratic European beauty Elena Mumm Thornton. Somber, itemized accounts of their love-making suggest that Wilson paid inordinate attention to her feet. "Folded together [her toes] looked so fine and white," he noted. "Sensual pleasures of holding the insteps and kissing the toes at their base...