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...already have the virus?' or 'What else have you been doing that's socially unacceptable?' " For many women, especially single women in their 20s, going slowly is the only guideline. Karoline Harrington, 24, an editorial assistant in Manhattan, says couples now have a greater tendency to just "hang out. Foreplay is a big part of it. People want to please each other, but sleeping together is a big deal...
...argument for movie attendance is the strongest. Teenagers go to the movies to get out of the house. Observes Screenwriter Kaufman: "For young people, movies are just foreplay, a cheap date before the back seat of the car." Maybe. But people of every age go to the movies to get out of themselves, to share the intense, expansive communal experience of being in the dark, with the huge screen the only light. That experience was easier to achieve when movie theaters were huge, gaudy palaces with plush appointments and ushers dressed like Ruritanian footmen. Alas, those theaters have been razed...
This is America's premiere horse race and it resemble nothing so much as a final exam in a rough but enjoyable course. The whole brief experience revolves around the week-long foreplay, foreplay, the loud ubiquitous hoopla perfected by Kentuckians years before the networks even started researching it. Barbecaes, races of everything from riverboats to hot-air balloons, beauty contests, and constant parties follow one another with dizzying speed and profusion. By the time the frazzled and usually drunken Derbygoer makes it to the Big Event itself (which comes, by the way, after a full slate of seven...
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...