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Word: cynara (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Simone: Monogamous! Get him. Marriage is a bourgeois institution, a way of fixing woman as man's property. Sartre and I have worked out one possible alternative: contingent loves with a certain fidelity. "I have been faithful to thee, Cynara, in my fashion...

Author: By Faye Levine, | Title: DeBeauvoir: A Review and a Dream | 6/17/1965 | See Source »

...husband. Claire Bloom, a nymphoholic divorcee, goes for delivery boys and straight gin. Only Glynis Johns and John Dehner, as a sort of artsy-daftsy fun couple, manage to bring a whiff of fresh air to the otherwise musky proceedings. While declaiming "I have been faithful to thee, Cynara! in my fashion" into a tape recorder one afternoon on the beach, Glynis gets trampled by a strapping pro football player, decides that a romp with this animated side of beef would give her a new outlook on life. The romp turns into a beery rout, and she wriggles home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Nothing to Report | 11/2/1962 | See Source »

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