Word: kisses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Here, the number of kisses depends on where you are. In Rio, you kiss a person twice, once on each cheek. In the city of São Paulo, you kiss a person only once. But in the interior of São Paulo state, you kiss three times, alternating cheeks. The third kiss is for luck in marriage. This gets to be a problem when you leave a party and have to kiss 50 people goodbye...
...Morrow says "American men rarely kiss other men, unless they are father and son, or unless they are homosexual." Obviously, Morrow has not attended an Italian-American wedding...
...uptight about catching mononucleosis, the social kiss [Feb. 7] can be an invaluable opportunity...
...highlight of Lillian Carter's trip was a four-hour pilgrimage back to Vikhroli, the town near Bombay where she served as a Peace Corps nurse a decade ago. "I can't wait to kiss everybody," she said on arrival. Old friends greeted her as Lily behn (our sister Lily), and schoolchildren sang, danced and even performed yoga exercises in her honor. At the dispensary, a former patient told her that his asthma was better. "Of course," teased Mrs. Carter. "I cured you." As she moved from one patient to another, she murmured, as if to herself...
...Women love to be kissed on both cheeks. They know they're getting a French kiss without all the trouble that usually goes with it." Ultimately, the social kiss, however promiscuously inflicted, is unlikely to do any permanent damage to civilization. The threat can at least be kept to a minimum if, as the old sorority house rule dictated, a couple keeps a total of three feet on the floor at all times...