Word: bosomed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Snakes and Parrots. Burke called his stories "tales" and had no illusion about their realism. In his Limehouse, Fu Manchu stalks opium dens; every flower girl has a "lily-white bosom" and is generally no older than 14-Burke seemed to have a pre-Nabokov feeling for nymphets. There are sharp krisses, malevolent white parrots and deadly snakes. It is, in fact, a never-never land that encloses the reader in a cave of such hypnotic mandarin prose as the following...
...Well, you see, the thing that precipitated Colson's coming over is that he found that Dean was still here ... Colson called and says you've got an ass at your bosom over there, and so, today he checked again ... and discovered that Dean was still here ... He came in and he says, "You guys are just out-of-your-minds" ... He was fit to be tied...
...latest package he has modestly chosen to limit himself to kidnaping and rape, perhaps because the good liberal in him balks at going further. The object of Wallace's kidnaping is a Hollywood sex symbol named Sharon Fields, she of the "half-parted moist lips" and "famous bosom." Her captors are Adam, a lust-crazed young writer (wearing, as writers will, "a worn gray cord jacket" and "tight blue knit slacks") and three accomplices, just "ordinary, average men" says Wallace, who naturally turn into "savages bent on satisfying their immediate appetites." Howard Yost, a beefy failed insurance salesman...
After the meeting, Kennedy sent a personal letter to Henry Luce, the late publisher of Time, Life and Fortune magazines, to "emphasize the need for keeping the fact that this discussion has even taken place completely in the bosom of your official family...
...truth, Barlow was a vibrant Isolde. Making the most of her ample bosom, well-turned hips and (rarity of Wagnerian rarities) trim waist, she played the Irish princess as an impetuous, headstrong woman. To New York audiences who have seen almost nothing for 15 years except Birgit Nilsson's cool, ruminative portrayal, Barlow's sexy Isolde came as a pleasant shock...