Word: girls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Unfortunately, Roeg's mythologizing of the four characters succeeds only with Marilyn. Perhaps he has been reading Norman Mailer, for he, too, sees her as more than the apotheosis of sex appeal. The woman who once sang "Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend" and died of a mysterious overdose comes to embody maligned femininity everywhere. Treated as a sex object she resigns herself to scoring all her points by means of sex. She is forced into a role that suffocates and ultimately kills...
...worked on one suit defending Dupont against a little girl who was maimed for life, and another representing management in a sexual discrimination dispute involving a blind woman. But, she said, she drew the line on representing Agent Orange and Jaguar, which has a substantial interest in South Africa...
EXHIBIT A: Sadness spread over the faces of two freshmales from Holworthy as they sat dejectedly on the sidewalk on Quincy St. outside the Union. "I'd be a lot happier if they served booze," said the first. "All I want is for that girl over there to sit on my lap," said the other, who for his part obviously did not want for liquor...
...Accidental Tourist brings Tyler up to date: girl leaves boy, boy keeps house. Macon Leary's unassertiveness is in timely contrast to Sarah's decisiveness and Muriel's zeal. Ethan's violent death is right off the 6 o'clock news. Even Macon finally proves conspicuously contemporary by taking charge of his life. The move seems a bit too abrupt for a character whose susceptibility to drift has been so carefully established. But this is a minor disappointment in a novel animated by witty invention and lively personalities, including Edward the feisty corgi, whose bite is just...
Then began that elaborate ritual of women and children first. "It's all right, little girl," Dan Marvin said to his bride as he escorted her to one of the boats. "You go and I'll stay awhile." She never saw him again. "Walter, you must come with me," pleaded Mrs. Walter Douglas. "No, I must be a gentleman," said Douglas, turning away. Mrs. Isidor Straus, wife of the co-owner of Macy's, refused to be separated. "I've always stayed with my husband, so why should I leave him now?" she said...