Word: frigid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...marriage, they deteriorate into a mere 'chore' or 'duty' for the wife . . . Stripped of his aggressiveness, the husband becomes a passive partner; he loses interest in making the sex act satisfying for his wife. He wants her to seduce him.'' Sexstarved, the frigid woman often gravitates into extramarital affairs, from which she gains intense sexual enjoyment. "There is nothing organically wrong with the frigid wife,'' explains Linden. "She is quite able to enjoy satisfying sexual relations-but not with her husband. However, her basic conflict assures that sooner or later the lover...
None did. Boykowycz then tied a clothesline around his waist and stepped off into the frigid water. Clinging tightly to the line, 17 shivering scouts followed...
...with a tomcat theater director; Naomi Shields, an alcoholic nymphomaniac who accommodates an entire jazz combo; Teresa Harnish, the arty wife of an art dealer who decides to find out from a Cro-Magnon beach bum how the other half loves. For a change of pace, the heroine is frigid, or thinks...
...white and handsome, teeter on the brink of financial collapse; four hotels in the last six months, including the Saxony and Cadillac, already are reorganizing under the bankruptcy act. Other hotelkeepers are trying to scrape together enough money to pay the taxes that they fell behind on during the frigid winter season...
...Aqua-Lung. Whole new fields are opening up for free divers, who, like Cousteau, soon tire of skewering fish as too easy (cracks one Frenchman: "It's like chasing elephants in a sports car"). The move is toward wreck-hounding, tracing underground springs through black and frigid waters, studying rock and reef, and taking underwater color movies. Equipped with Aqua-Lungs, divers are gradually taking over much of the work of the traditional helmeted diver. They hunt for jade off California, sink oil derricks off Louisiana, scrounge for sponge and pearl in the Mediterranean, raise cannon, coins and crucifixes...