Word: foreplay
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Franny and John are a little too close for comfort. Indeed their fraternal horsing around seems more like foreplay than wrestling. However, it is not until later on in the movie, when Fanny finally gives in to her brother's somewhat questionable desires that the two engage in a marathon afternoon...
...used against fools, an aphrodisiac with which to ply faculty wives, and a solace whenever thoughts of suicide dance in his head. Still, words give Gowan problems. His rampant eloquence can prove an embarrassment, as when one avid matron removes her brassiere and Gowan offers this verbal foreplay: "Released from their support, her breasts drooped like hanged men." And for ages now he has been unable to put words into an order that would constitute a publishable poem. As his rueful ex-wife notes, "Gowan always maintained that what he hated most about writing was the paperwork." So from campus...
...gigolo with Saturday-night fever. At the end of the first, teasingly erotic pas de deux, Dowell effortlessly lifts Sibley aloft and, in one graceful, fluid motion, floats her offstage. The gesture promises a lovers' private communion. Yet, in the end, it turns out to be only funning foreplay: the stranger, it seems, is less interested in the lady of the house than he is in regaining his sunglasses and patting his pompadour back into place...
...displaying of the label could become de rigeur in the early stages of a relationship--possibly during advanced "foreplay." In those ethnic and hyper-traditional groups in which a suitor asks for a woman's hand in marriage, he might be required to bring a sampling of his under things for the parents to peruse. And, in the case of seduction, underwear will probably prove the source of considerable stress and depression. A woman who wakes to find that her paramour wears Caldor generics could experience severe self-doubt and fear of ostracism from her peer group. Psychotherapists should take...
Byplay becomes foreplay. They fall into each other's arms and then violently push away. She taunts him with gossip about her former conquests: Shakespeare, Aristophanes, T.S. Eliot, everyone, in fact, whom Miles might hopelessly wish to emulate. He wonders aloud why she will not transform herself more frequently into the shape of that delightful West Indian nurse, simply for the sake of varied stimulation, if she is so confident of her own seductive powers...