Word: frigid
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...Dear, What Can the Matter Be? For Londoners who paused to listen in the rain, it seemed like a good question. As the nation suffered through its second three-day work week, decreed by the government because of a coal miners' slowdown, Britons swapped opinions about darkened streets, frigid flats, gutted paychecks-and ways to endure the energy shortage...
...Widmerpool's wife Pamela, an elegant harpie who was visited upon him like a judgment in Powell's previous volume, Books Do Furnish a Room (1971), who now moves to center stage. As promiscuous and frigid as ever, she lends a macabre sexual touch to dreadful Widmerpool's international intriguing. She also ensnares Powell's two important new characters-Louis Glober and Russel Gwinnett...
...acoustics are good, and it seats 2,700 people. It lacks the frigid and pompous vulgarity of theaters like the Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center or, worse still, Edward Durrell Stone's monstrous box of upholstered Mussolini at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington. But that is not saying a great deal. The design, with its pleats of white birch, hanging plastic doughnuts and faired-in lights, is weirdly Art Deco: it could be the set for a lavish Buck Rogers movie from the '30s-"Desist, Zorka, or you will destroy...
...Maine's Moosehead Lake-frigid in winter, plagued by black flies in summer-300 ft. of water frontage is selling for $30,000, or double the price of two years...
...wife and his first novel advance money, he emigrates to San Francisco, loses his wife to a motorcycle bum, falls in love with an L.A. cartoonist whom he meets while scripting the film made from his novel, and becomes justly depressed when she turns out to be frigid. They split: he returns to Texas, and she to a cameraman she loved before she even met Danny. After another series of extra and marital mishaps, including screwing two other men's wives (one of them that of his best friend), Danny gets roughed up by cops on the Mexican border, emotionally...