Word: drawer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Eddie Coyle is a man who should have learned his lesson. A desk drawer was slammed against his hand once for a mistake that sent a man to prison. Now he's known as Eddie Fingers. But Eddie's up for sentencing in New Hampshire, and he needs to get in good with the law if he is to expect any mercy from the judge. So he tries to play a tough game: buying guns from Jackie Brown for some bank holdups, and at the same time telling the cops about another of Jackie's deals, a sale of machineguns...
...American women with a sort of wary bemusement; they seemed a race of cool, assertive, pampered and sometimes savagely domineering women. In 1898, the Scots traveler James F. Muirhead observed, with what was surely a chauvinist's exaggeration: "Man meekly submits to be the hewer of wood, the drawer of water, and the beast of burden for the superior sex." Yet now the New Feminists assert-an irony that does not invalidate the argument-that it is they who are dominated...
...spawned by the liberationists has already moved into the vernacular. Expressions such as "male chauvinist pig (MCP)," "bra burner," "consciousness raising," "sex role," "role model," "sexist" and "sexism," "sister," "sisterhood" and "machismo" are now in common use, even among precocious preteen-agers. No cocktail party can be considered top drawer without at least one reference to the "myth of the vaginal orgasm" or to some "phallustine" (an MCP philistine). But some women want more. The language, they say, reflects centuries of male dominance, and is loaded with male chauvinist piggisms that must be thoroughly rooted...
Such Good Friends has something to do with the racy Lois Gould bestseller about a woman (Dyan Cannon) whose husband (Laurence Luckinbill) enters the hospital for a routine operation and rapidly develops severe complications. Hunting around in the desk drawer for the medical insurance, the wife discovers a little black book in which Hubby has recorded his numerous infidelities...
...hand flutter like birds. I don't want to give you the picture if you don't like it. You will either tear it up or bury it in a drawer. You think it makes you look bad, Awkward...