Word: foreplay
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dumb questions. What is it really like being a giant panda? Is it true that I've come all the way from London to have an interpanda relationship with what's-her-name at the National Zoo in Washington? Is it true that pandas know little about foreplay...
...chasing a hot story on the way to falling in love. Daryll is disarmingly direct in telling Tony how much he loves her, has always loved her, and always will. His offer to wax the floors of her apartment constitutes the season's most original metaphor for sexual foreplay ("Then I buff it gently, till it beams"), and, when he finally gets her into his bed, he warns, "I'll tell you right now, it's going to be wonderful." It is. Eyewitness is, after all, a romance of attractive opposites...
...supporting cats. To keep the kitties "playful," says Co-Producer Ralph Heifer, "they are not allowed to indulge in sex. What you see on the screen appears to be a lion attacking a person, but in reality it's just a big cat getting chummy." Leonine foreplay can be rough...
...many cases, the unkindest cuts of movie moguls have been restored decades later by heroic film scholars. Together again for the first time: King Kong, in which the great ape engages in vigorous foreplay with Fay Wray; Welles' Macbeth and Touch of Evil; Max Ophuls' magnificent melodrama Lola Monies; and Sergio Leone's great homage to John Ford, Once Upon a Time in the West...
...thick with devalued buzz words, including "buzz words." Behavioral science, always a leader in the euphemism derby, has cut some gems and polished some others: psychologists persistently refer to unresponsive women as "preorgasmic," and Masters and Johnson call foreplay a "stimulative approach opportunity," perhaps the most effective sexual turn-off since saltpeter. Therapists speak of "actualizing," to mean the fulfillment of potential. "I hear you" has descended from the aural to the banal; it means a total understanding of the speaker's temperament. "Lifing" is the effort to derive the utmost from every day; "Who are you screaming with...