Word: benching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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China is Near is not about love, but sex; it's not about ideology, but politics. The proletarians making love at the start of the movie on a hard wooden bench are by the end wallowing in feather-beds. Their socialist consciences are not so much destroyed as dissipated by bourgeois morality, or rather immorality...
...talk of a husband and wife in bed at night, speaking of their children or their friends, evokes in tone and languor the bedroom conversation familiar to all parents. In the Guerins' home, guests move through "a low varnished hallway where on a mock cobbler's bench their coats and hats huddle like a heap of the uninvited." Houses have windows whose panes are "flecked with oblong bubbles and tinged with lavender." A television screen's "icy brilliance implies a universe of profound cold beyond...
...Classics, then a fledgling basketball squad in search of an identity and not the powerhouse it is today, traveled to the Deer Island Correctional Institute for a game with the local residents. Following the contest, a 74-73 Classics triumph, Adams House inmate Peter Durgerian sat on the visitors' bench blissfully piping a tune on his harmonica...
Broadway Producer Hillard Elkins was strolling beside Manhattan's Central Park last week when he got an itch to speak with the man directing the revival of his musical Golden Boy, in rehearsal at the George Abbott Theater some 20 blocks away. Elkins sat down on the nearest bench, opened his briefcase and picked up the telephone. "Hello, mobile. Come in, please. This is JL 5-5035," he began, and in moments the director was on the other end of the line...
...target is a particularly tempting and well-authorized one for Irish assassins from Swift to Shaw: the smug face of English hypocrisy, personified in this case by a sanctimonious divorce judge named Sir Toby Routh. His fiercely prudish sermons from the bench drive adulterers to suicide and his wife to drink. He is as pompous a prig as ever rode a Rolls to work and pride to a fall. But the only tumble Miss Tracy gives him is into the downy bed of Gerda Trauenegg, a well-tuned opera singer from Vienna. Catching him with his wig down, Gerda momentarily...