Word: letched
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...the 1890s, New York City was unrepentantly wide open. Day or night, a man with a thirst or a letch or the urge to gamble could satisfy his cravings with ease. Long past midnight, small bands played in dozens of Manhattan concert saloons while prostitutes in floor-length dresses trawled the tables. Streetwalkers divvied up the various corners in the Tenderloin, and touts handed out cards for $1-a-date Bowery brothels. Bettors wanting action could wander into Frank Farrell's crystal-chandeliered casino on West 33rd Street. Tourists could smoke opium in no-frills dens in Chinatown...
...Special Ed., the high school gulag for misfits of all races, bad attitudes and personal liabilities. (Tracy: "Whaddaya do in Special Ed.?" Nerds: "We do musicals!") The class also imprisons some of the black kids, including Seaweed J. Stubbs (Corey Reynolds), for whom Penny develops an immediate and unquenchable letch. From nine to three, Tracy tries to wriggle from the confines of Special Ed.; then she's off to Corky's, to dance her plus-size girdle...
...view of women remains puerile: hostility toward mature ones (hate the mother), letch for young ones (love the daughter). At least in Deconstructing Harry he was forthrightly misogynist. But he never seems more condescending to women than when he's ostensibly loving them, as with Leoni. That may be why some of his best jokes idealize masturbation. In Annie Hall he called it "sex with someone you love." He has another good line here: "The nicest thing about masturbation is after. The cuddling time...
Packwood's undignified tactics upstaged Senators' concerns about Fifth Amendment safeguards against self-incrimination. Instead, many Senators fumed privately that the man who may already have been exposed as a letch, lush and liar was a lout as well. Says an ethics committee staff member: "The fact that ((Packwood)) stood on the Senate floor and issued a not-so-veiled threat against his colleagues has alienated a lot of people." (An unnamed woman, described by her lawyer as "prominent within the country," was equally unhappy, charging that the release of the diaries would cause "irreparable damage" to her reputation...
...Bolivia and Tony, his proletarian successor. He has two things Tony wants: power and a bored blond mistress (Michelle Pfeiffer), with a Kew-pie-doll mouth soured into a who-cares sneer and the bad habit of powdering her nose from the inside. Tony also develops a paternal letch for his teen-age sister (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio). The combination of greed and blood lust is too much for this bad guy to handle; if one doesn't get him, the other will. And in the end, both...