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Speaking softly to a crowd which alternately broke into laughter, appluase and scattered hissing, Hite described her conclusions on male sexuality, culled from 7329 questionnaires, as "somewhat bleak at first sight...
Because of this constant pressure, one of sex's main attractions for men may be that during it, "It's okay to be out of control--you can say anything you want, and afterwards you don't have to mean it," Hite suggested, drawing laughter from both men and women in the audience...
...phone call when the bus be comin' along," he explains, "so the driver won't warn the passengers. Then when it be by, I's leapin' in the air with my hand through the window and gone befo' anyone sees." He breaks into laughter, slapping skin all round. He has been caught five times this summer for pickpocketing. At Macy's he was caught boosting eight blue Izod Lacoste shirts in his Adidas bag. He has just finished 60 days' probation...
...matinee, 4˝ in the evening?will leave the theater in a state very like rapture. This feeling of giddy awe comes partly from spending a day mesmerized by a brilliant troupe of actors, partly from the seductive effulgence of stagecraft, partly from the simultaneous tugs of farce and melodrama, laughter and tears...
...such statements Updike constructs a poignant comedy of diminished expectations. Some of the laughter arises from the nagging ordinariness of Rabbit's life. His biggest problem is his son Nelson, 23, who comes home with a pregnant fiancee, announces that he does not want to finish his senior year at Kent State and begins angling for a sales job at Springer Motors. Rabbit dislikes Nelson: "I think one of the troubles between me and the kid is every time I had a little, you know, slipup, he was there to see it." Dodging his son as much...