Word: frigidly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...breeding ground of misapprehensions. Captain Augustino, the project security officer, is convinced that "Oppy" is passing information to the Soviets, while Klaus Fuchs, a real spy, fails to arouse the captain's suspicion. Anna Weiss, a mathematician who has escaped the Holocaust, gives the impression that she is frigid and unflappable. In fact, she is Pena's playmate and leads a rich, neurotic secret life...
...encrusted Pad 39-B at the Kennedy Space Center on Jan. 28, killing all seven of its crew. But on one point the testimony already seemed conclusive: so many doubts had been expressed about the safety of the flight that Challenger should not have been launched on that frigid Florida morning. As one source privy to the commission's thinking said, "This was an absolutely preventable thing. This accident never should have happened. Never...
...latest developments focused once again on the unusually frigid Florida temperatures, which had fallen to the mid-20s, accompanied by 35-m.p.h. gusts for hours before Challenger was launched, and on the right booster, which had clearly failed. Less than half a second after booster ignition, just as the shuttle began to lift, first a white and then a black puff of smoke gushed from a joint between two of the 149-ft. rocket's four segments. At 59.8 seconds, high in the sky, flame burst through the booster's steel casing, apparently at the same aft joint. In another...
After Reagan's press-conference remarks, U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines Bosworth arranged a meeting with Aquino to discuss Special Envoy Habib's impending visit. The atmosphere during the session was both awkward and frigid. Bosworth, a highly regarded career diplomat who has worked hard to gain the opposition's confidence, had apparently been taken by surprise by the President's remarks. Says a key Aquino supporter who walked in on the Bosworth-Aquino meeting: "I don't know what the Japanese Ambassador looked like when they were bombing Pearl Harbor, but I imagine he looked like Steve...
When Oscar says "All women are whores," in his drunken stupor, Wertmuller would have the audience believe that this is the comic entirety of the male anthem. Actually, Wertmuller is in error. The complete macho male anthem is that all women are whores, lesbians, or frigid. By merely introducing lesbianism or bisexuality in the women characters, this pretentious film does nothing to change men's stereotypical views of female sexuality it merely confirms one aspect of a nasty but common world view. To effectively make a feminist statement, one would have to introduce issues beyond the mundane comic plane...