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...dinner, courting constituency groups like the American Association of Retired Persons, and even scheduling a trip to Las Vegas next week to address an annual convention of AFSCME, the public employees union. Meanwhile, the selection of a vice-presidential candidate is probably a month away. The Arkansas Governor remains coy on the subject beyond admitting the obvious: "I have quite a long list -- and it's not as long as it once was." (One name crossed out is that of New Jersey Senator Bill Bradley, who has convinced Clinton that he genuinely does not want...
...talk these days among the Irish is of "fiddles." Not the kind that make music but the ones that make money. Fiddle is a coy Celtic epithet for the sort of financial finaglings plaguing the Irish republic even as scandalmongers have their eyes on Tokyo and Manhattan...
...begin challenging the prevailing orthodoxy, I propose a new terminology. It is high time to cast off the coy euphemisms behind which we hide our status, as they reinforce unhealthy and undeserved shame. We are not "taking time off"; we are "doing nothing," and should be proud of it. Members of ANGST should no longer mumble vague platitudes about "work and travel" when questioned about their future. The correct responses are "I haven't the foggiest notion," or "Oh, go to hell." We must expunge "plans" (as in "Esmerelda will be starting her joint MD/PhD/JD program at Stanford next fall...
...large investment she will have to make in the offspring, the opposite is true. Her concern is to "select" who "will provide the best set up for their offspring." So, in general, "the pressure is on the male to be aggressive and on the female to be coy...
...aroused, are not very good at communicating. "In many cases," says Estrich, "the man thought it was sex, and the woman thought it was rape, and they are both telling the truth." The man may envision a celluloid seduction, in which he is being commanding, she is being coy. A woman may experience the same event as a degrading violation of her will. That some men do not believe a woman's protests is scarcely surprising in a society so drenched with messages that women have rape fantasies and a desire to be overpowered...