Word: damsel
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...detected--though this may be a mistaken impression--a certain cooling of Bond's ardour for romantic digression. This may be a concession to Moore's advancing years, though he may come back robustly in Octupussy. With the Reagan era upon the world, Bond may soon return to the damsel-in-distress mode...
...cuts a formidable figure these days--football quarterback on a hot streak--making the long climb to his Kirkland lair. But somehow a name like that seems to demand a suit of armour and a damsel in distress. Yet Judson Burke St. John will settle for a plastic football helmet and a triumph with his mates over the dragons of New Haven...
...play in tournaments, and their chivalry, and nobleness, and courage. Most of all, there was St. John of Burke, the eldest and wisest of all the knights. But St. John was downcast this day, and his heart was not with him. It had been claimed by another, a fair damsel now captured by the Green Meanies. And St. John had sought this maiden, fighting many a battle and slaying many a knight while chasing her. But he had been beaten in his last fight. knocked from his horse by The Knight of Delta Pi Epsilon. And St. John was disgraced...
...person of Amy, an aggressive bank-executive who takes him to lunch, to the movies, and to her apartment, where Wells succumbs to her charms after a feeble struggle--"I don't want to compromise you," he worries. Ironically, this self-described "twentieth-century woman" becomes the classic damsel in distress when Stevenson chooses her for his victim...
...Damsel in Distress. Boston Public Library, Friday...