Word: frigid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...patrolman's lifeless body was wheeled into an operating room. There Drs. Nathan Couch and Anthony Monaco made a long vertical incision on the right side of the abdomen. Within three minutes they cut down to the portal vein, which drains into the liver; they then injected a frigid solution to cool the precooled liver down still more. They completed their work in 24 minutes and dropped the liver into a cold saline solution in a sterilized container...
...perfect sexual harmony that exists among 200 noble savages on the Three Sirens islands. The islanders all seem to have read Choctaw editions of Havelock Ellis and orate in stiff English on the wonders of coeducational outhouses ("the one true democracy"), the Social Aid Hut where husbands suffering from frigid wives can go for relief, and the absurdity of necking. The invaders represent a spectrum of heterosexual appetites and respond to the natives' wisdom according to their own maladies. One shows the bored natives dirty pictures, another dances with her breasts bare, a third settles down to life...
Rather than mutual orgasm, most modern guides describe and counsel other methods as sometimes leading to "greater fulfillment" for the woman. In The Frigid Wife, Gynecologist-Psychiatrist Lena Levine cites numerous case histories of women whose sexual happiness was blocked by the belief that there was only one "right" form of sexual intercourse. "In this confusion," she says, "sexual coldness may develop." She advises numerous forms of stimulation...
...moment is exquisitely interpreted and profoundly affecting, but the rest of the film is cold. However, the chill is deliberate. It counterfeits the frigid region of unbeing inhabited by the hero. It forces the spectator to see the hero's life from an infinite distance, with an infinite impersonality. The experience is uncanny. It makes the moviegoer feel almost like...
Protective Cold. Paradoxically, the fact that the raw March wind was a frigid 14°F. and the river was close to 32° was in Roger's favor. When he lost his hold on the ice and fell in, he was already exhausted and chilled; he probably did not fight much for air, and as a result he inhaled less water than he might have. The icy river soon dropped his body temperature-certainly below 75°, but how much lower, nobody knows-so that when he drowned and circulation stopped, his brain suffered less from oxygen deprivation...