Word: frigid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...small Italian town. In his present book he aims to tell the ironic, chilling story of a modern Diana who hunts a different species of bulls and bears. Author Vailland seems to think the lady is hot stuff, but most readers will find her just one more frigid bitch...
...Berne labels this game Frigid Woman, and warns against the conclusion that its outcome is all Mrs. Husband's fault. Chances are that her spouse deliberately, if unconsciously, chose just such an unobliging mate-"to minimize the danger," as Berne puts it, "of overtaxing his disturbed potency, which he can now blame on her." Another game is called Uproar, and while it is most commonly played by married couples anxious to avoid sexual intimacy, it is also played, on other occasions and for other reasons, by all mankind...
...France is both circuitous and cruel. Once he has paid the local smuggling agent for his passage, the peasant is sent to a mountain hideout near the Spanish border, where he joins a group of 15 or 20 others and is turned over to a guide. Traveling for two frigid nights, they scramble over secret mountain trails into Spain, carrying their belongings with them. A vegetable truck drives them some 300 miles to an isolated ranch in the Pyrenees above San Sebastian. From there, it is a four-night trek down the Pyrenees into the flatlands of southern France, where...
Outside Manhattan's Biltmore Hotel last week, the temperature was a frigid 26°, but in the grand ballroom the atmosphere of Carrier Corp.'s 50th anniversary stockholders' meeting was glowingly warm. President William Bynum, 62, announced that sales in fiscal 1964 jumped 9%, to $325 million. Directors recently voted a 20% dividend raise, and shareholders happily approved a three-for-two stock split...
...witch, every man's dream of coy seductiveness. Men fight over her. Fighting's another basic basic. So how do we rescue Nina from her compulsions? Well, there's this dream man, a rich American, and it all comes out O.K. because his wife is frigid anyway, and Nina . . . Short sentences, Gene...