Word: forthing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...blurted a confession about the celebrated dunking of Arthur Schlesinger Jr. in the Kennedy pool. "All these years, Ethel has been taking the rap for me," she said. "I'm the one who pushed Arthur into the pool. I was dancing by and he was standing there holding forth and looking so Arthurish, and something came over me. I just stuck out my arm and pushed him in and danced away. He never knew...
...still such a thing as The Movement, a popular misconception which led to Chicago's Yippie hysteria and the subsequent Chicago conspiracy trail. Its founders never fooled themselves about that piece of fiction, realizing that their alleged movement of astrology freaks, SDSers, Trotskvites, blacks, students, pacifists, and so forth, had little in common, aside from their general disgust with America. And they eventually learned about factionalism first-hand when their own organization fell apart...
Since the rest of the book is also about orgasm or leading up to it, it would be unfair to say that these two chapters comprise her entire discussion of sexuality. Garrity puts forth a step-by-step plan to become a Sensuous Woman...
...anything about the gang becomes more clear with time, it is the fact that Bond swayed back and forth between the poles of his "gang"- the girls on one side and the ex-convicts on the other. He is the only one of the six persons implicated in all of the group's alleged crimes...
...grieving mother appears and, after turning out to be none other than Marlene Dietrich, goes briefly to bed with Hudson. Such diversions, alas, are all but drowned in endless talk, mainly in Havana's Floridita Bar, where Hudson, now completely taken over by Papa Hemingway, holds forth to politicians, bartenders, soldiers and sailors and, yes, an elderly, wise, warmhearted prostitute named Honest...