Word: girling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that "a baronet is one who has ceased to be a gentleman but has not become a nobleman." That particular axiom required some revision as of last week. For Britain's newest baronet, Sir Ewan Forbes of Brux, eleventh of his line, began life as a girl...
...thought better of. The key to his modest pad may unlock an executive suite for him. Commuting senior executives with one night of illicit in-town love on their agendas barter promises of future advancement for the use of his apartment. One night Chuck finds the girl (Jill O'Hara) he worships in the bed he rarely makes. She has taken an overdose of sleeping pills after discovering the perfidy of the company Don Juan. Cure: the love of a good -well, fairly good...
Jimmy is haunted by girls, wanting them, needing them, losing them. Too shy to propose to the girl he adores (Susan Sullivan), he is crushed when she marries his best friend. Too bold with a girl who cares for him (Pamela Payton-Wright), he affronts her moral code by suggesting sex before marriage. Just to make his humiliations ludicrous as well as painful, he tends to get sudden attacks of diarrhea whenever he is on the verge of going to bed with a woman. Whether in high school or in a San Francisco hippie joint, someone is always splatting...
They may not be real, but they are certainly presences-insistent as memory, disturbing as a sudden hush in a crowded room. Ghostly white, implacably still, they command a whole ambiance around themselves. Step too close to the motel bed with its sprawled, exhausted girl, and you feel as awkward as an intruder. Even the simplest figure-a naked girl slumped on a chair by a window, a woman emerging from a shower stall-seems not just a piece of sculpture but a centerpiece of some invisible living space. The mind's eye creates walls, curtains, furniture that...
...wherever the plaster might pull on body hair. But Segal can never cast the whole figure in one piece-a complete cast would cut off the body's pores from the outer air and might prove as lethal to the model as gold paint was to the hapless girl in Goldfinger...