Word: cupidities
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...plays her airhead-blonde character to the hilt, unwittingly offering herself to the wrong men and ruining the schemes designed to unite her with Hero. And Pseudolus moves rapidly from character to character, passing himself off as head of the house, a soothsayer, a brothel-keeper, and, of course, Cupid...
Between women's lib and gay lib, the sexual twists at the modern office can get grotesque. Mazzei devotes a chapter to "Women at Work" and another to "When Cupid Gets Stupid." Among his guidelines: do not compliment women for wearing appropriate business dress; be sure to tell your employer if you are bringing a gay lover to a formal company occasion. Mazzei offers a couple of pages of suggestions on the issue of a kiss on the cheek, warning that it can often end up with "a clash of eyeglass frames and a lot of confusion." When conducting...
...this same improbable Cupid, however, who was part of the hit team that smudged the pregnant Diana in the Bahamas a year ago. (A hit in Fleet Street lingo is a good story, and a smudge is a photo.) Armed with jungle gear and survey maps, Whitaker and Photographer Kenny Lennox entered the jungle at 5:55 one morning, just before sunup. They were on a patch of land opposite the beach where Charles and Diana were staying. Says Whitaker: "We crawled, carrying a lens the size of a bloody howitzer for a solid hour and a half...
...acre Sandringham estate. It was there that Charles met Diana as a little girl. He regarded her, naturally, as the playmate of his younger brother Andrew, 21, and later chose to date one of the two older Spencer girls, Lady Sarah, 25. Sarah, in fact, claims credit for playing cupid to the couple, for she reintroduced the Prince to Diana at a 1977 shoot at Althorp. By then Diana's parents had divorced and remarried other partners, and their youngest daughter was a boarding student at the quietly exclusive West Heath School in Kent, doing particularly well...
...Harvard women's hockey team celebrated Valentine's Day in fine form, making like Cupid and shooting its heart out en route to its fifth victory in the last six outings, an 11-3 shellacking of a hapless Wesleyan squad Saturday afternoon at the Bright Center...