Word: bitching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lavender dress trimmed with white lace, is absolutely ravishing as the shameless, lying wife Angelique (note Moliere's ironic use of this traditional name from Italian farce); it is easy to understand how anyone would want to seduce her, married or not. Angelique is, not to mince words, a bitch in lamb's clothing, a sort of female lago; and Miss Hays does her just right...
...Washington, D.C., kind of lie: that's where I'm lying but he knows that I'm lying and he knows that I know that he knows that I'm lying." Gene Tierney drew laughs with a shaft aimed at Washington hostesses: "They say any bitch with a million bucks can be the best." After it was over, some Senators offered advice and dissent. Snorted North Carolina's B. Everett Jordan: "I didn't recognize a thing in it.""We're much more complicated than that," said Minnesota's Eugene McCarthy. Growled...
...convicted by her countrymen in a 1951 war crimes trial, members of the European Commission on Human Rights not only rejected the plea but also damned it as a "manifest abuse" of their time. The appel lant: Lifer Use Koch, 54, better known during World War II as the "Bitch of Buchenwald...
...writes Michael McClure, and furthermore, WHAP WHAP WHAP WHAP WHAP Most action poets profess to take religion seriously, "via crucis vicar son of a bitch render out with magnificat," cries Ebbe Borregaard, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the wittiest of them, writes of a "wiggy prophet . . . gentle as the lamb of God/made into mad cutlets." Many action poets describe "religious visions" induced by narcotics; conversely, one poet speaks of "getting a fix at the altar." Even more important than religion to most action poets is sex, but more important than either is excrement. Excrement is sacrament. They sprinkle it around like holy...
...Antibes and Juan-les-Pins to forget his wife, a philandering lady pianist. He is an American wanderer of European background, whose strongest characteristic is a persistent fretfulness and a concern for the color of clothes. What has maimed him, he thinks, is his frustrated passion for his bitch-wife, Liliane. But his strongest attachment is to a young, handsome male servant, an Algerian named Jeannot...