Word: beds
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...unreliability of people's recounting of their sexual experiences. In the massive 1994 study Sex in America: A Definitive Survey, the authors conjecture that men may exaggerate or women may understate the number of sex partners they have had. At a routine level, men lie to get women in bed ("you're beautiful," "my wife doesn't understand me"), lie when they are there (witness the hilarity that greets Jim Carrey's "I've had better" to a postcoital inquiry in the movie Liar Liar), and lie afterward ("I'll call you in the morning...
According to legend, Procrustes used his bed to measure passers-by and would cut off the body parts of those who were too big for his bed or stretch the bodies of those who were too small to fit the dimensions exactly...
Fadiman said that Procrustes's bed is a good metaphor for the culture wars because people nowadays are expected to choose one of two ideologies...
...over unknowns which will remain unknowns--whether or not there is free will, when the sun will have used up all of its hydrogen, yada, yada, yada--while we spend offensively little time on the one sure thing in life: good food. An excellent soft-shell crab on a bed of arugula, after all, just...
...years to his room following his telecast of a New York Knicks-Washington Bullets game. The woman, a divorced mother of two, claims that Albert became enraged when she refused to join in a "three-way" with him and another man and that he threw her on the bed and viciously bit her on the back 10 to 15 times. Then, according to court documents, he did "by force, threat or intimidation engage in an act of sodomy, to wit: fellatio." After the woman sought treatment at a local hospital, the police were notified...