Word: comforting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...yacht sleeps eight in three private cabins with every creature comfort: carpeted floors, TV and VCR, two bathrooms with showers and a roomy galley. It can be outfitted with a harness-and-pulley mechanism, so that people with handicaps can sail the boat and move easily above and below deck...
...Jerusalem limestone of the old walls, offering a warm embrace which took me by surprise. I had always framed my thoughts about Jerusalem within the context of the ugliness of its religious wars and its atmosphere of fundamentalism. The color of the limestone, though, remained a constant source of comfort and companionship in its seeming refusal to surrender its morning glow and evening softness to the tensions of its surroundings...
...months to come. No event could have better breathed life into the call for limiting the number of terms a Congressman can serve, a proposal that refuses to die and is bound to land on ballots next fall. But for what it was worth, legislators could take some small comfort in the fact that few people could claim to be perfectly clean. The culture of special privilege, it turns out, is so pervasive that those using the House bank included not only members and their staffs but also journalists who cover Capitol Hill. Maybe it's time to move...
Once your partner has been established as witful, responsible and caring, writes Comfort, "the whole joy of sex-with-love is that there are no rules, so long as you enjoy, and the choice is practically unlimited." For devotees of the old Joy, all this is familiar. Like a dinner menu, sexual activity is divided into ingredients, appetizers, main courses and sauces, which, taken together, suggest that the French really did invent sex. You have your pattes d'araignee, your diligence de Lyon, your flanquette, your paresseuse, your postillionage, your negresse, your croupade, your pompoir, your cuissade, your ligottage...
What is significantly new about New Joy is a foreword: "The Implications of AIDS" (which "totally alters the sexual landscape") and a revised, thoroughgoing chapter on health, which the reader ought to study and absorb before moving on to the rest of the text. In blunt fashion, Comfort describes the ways in which people can become infected with AIDS and discusses methods of avoidance (none of which are without their dangers). Comfort's keynote: / "If your newly found love won't use a condom, you are in bed with a witless, irresponsible and uncaring person...