Word: fear
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Erica Jong knows something about love, especially its sexy side. Her first novel, Fear of Flying, electrified the literary community in 1971 with its frank sexuality and passion. The public was seduced: the book has sold more than 20 million copies worldwide, and was translated into 37 languages. Many books later, and now the grandmother of three, Jong has returned to her original calling, poetry, in her compelling new volume of poems, Love Comes First. TIME senior reporter Andrea Sachs reached the author at her Manhattan home...
...Fear of Flying was a international phenomenon. What was that like at age 31? It was unimaginable what happens to you when you get known for a book that everybody reads, or that everybody has heard of. If the book is said to be sexy, the crazies come out of the woodwork. It's unbelievable. So you have to really get used to that, and you have to get used to protecting yourself, which I knew absolutely nothing about...
Protecting yourself from strangers. I mean, I was a graduate student at Columbia. I was teaching at City College. I was an academic. It never occurred to me that I had to take my name out of the phone book and hide a little bit. And then came Fear of Flying and every crazy lunatic gets your number and has some proposition to make. They want to move in with you, they want you to save their lives, they want you as a lover. I mean, mostly they want salvation and they believe that a writer can deliver...
...them) walked under ladders to enter a room covered with spilled salt. The club lasted for many years and grew to more than 400 members, including five U.S. Presidents: Chester Arthur, Grover Cleveland, Benjamin Harrison, William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt. Despite the club's efforts, triskaidekaphobia (that's fear of the number 13) flourished; even today, most tall buildings don't have a 13th Floor...
...three people who contracted the H5N1 strain of the virus in China last year died. In the first six weeks of 2009, eight people have come down with bird flu, and five have died. Another thing is that while the disease has yet to go pandemic, as many doctors fear it could, it remains worrisomely persistent. Every year since 2003, about 100 people in Asia, the Middle East and Africa contract the disease. Last year, in a rare exception, the number dropped below...