Word: eden
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...funerals, weddings, proms. One girl will remember lying in the night grass under a blue moon with her little sister. Another will recall a last dance with a midshipman in Navy whites. A boy will alter the scent to that of lilacs, and swoop back to a childhood Eden near his father's rectory...
...Courtney Love. Perhaps because TV has always been a few steps behind other media in the race to reprocess and package alternative culture (remember that the women's movement was already in swing in the late 1960s, but you could still tune in to a midriff-baring Barbara Eden addressing Larry Hagman as "Master" on I Dream of Jeannie), it has taken a while for empowered girls to be granted their time slots...
...some it is lasagna, for others it is all things chocolate. My downfall is frozen dairy products. Ice cream is my favorite food group. It is to me as ambrosia was to the Roman deities. Had I been Eve, man would never have been evicted from the Garden of Eden. Fruit doesn't do anything for me. However, had the snake tempted me with an ice cream sundae, I would have been a goner--even if the Garden had had a polar address...
...America--has patently come a long way from the 1952-53 season, when the cast of I Love Lucy couldn't utter the word pregnant during Little Ricky's gestation period, or 1965 when, a year after network TV got its first double marital bed on Bewitched, Barbara Eden was forbidden by NBC to show her belly button on I Dream of Jeannie...
...affectless young Englishman named Richard, who, in Thailand, comes upon a hand-drawn map that seems to locate a dimly-rumored and supposedly unreachable island beach unknown to tourists or authorities. With a young French couple, flaccid Etienne and wanly beautiful Francoise, he manages to find this Eden, whose legendary sands can be arrived at only by jumping from the top of a high waterfall...