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Word: fortun (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Fortune Dundy-or Fortunée when the mood strikes her-is a 30-year-old virgin when she checks into Dionysus West, a jerry-built, mob-owned "swingles" trap for the 25-to-40 set. She is the kind of hysterical small-town girl that William Inge used to write about. Her virginity has "burrowed in," and she gets more fey and deluded every year. A true believer in movie-magazine ads and a windy, unpublished correspondent to any number of letters columns, she comes to Dionysus Villa as to an old-fashioned spa, to alleviate the hope that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Swingles Trap | 2/7/1972 | See Source »

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