Word: lickerish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bosom powdered. But this gentleman, the Vicomte de Valmont (John Malkovich), is an icy defiler, and this lady, the Marquise de Merteuil (Glenn Close), secretes contempt under her frozen smile. Among the French aristocracy just before the Revolution, she is the stage manager of affections and deceptions, he the lickerish snake who literally hisses at his adversaries. Their cruel games will lead them to peek through keyholes, swipe bedroom keys, purloin letters, ruin lives. And write with feathers...
...chocolate syrup, while a bevy of young girls lobbed baseballs at the target for $3 a pop. After three splashdowns each in the high-calorie goo, the men were just too delicious for the girls to resist. Recalls Thomas: "They licked the chocolate off my hairy chest." For their lickerish female admirers, the idea of having a hunk of chocolate will never be the same...
Humanity itself is here an endangered species. One story introduces a cheap carnival girl whose "act" requires her to spend all day being licked by a bat; another implicitly compares the hero's lickerish mother to a pleasure-loving lizard; a third likens the members of a platoon to an anteater, a peafowl, a civet cat and other zoo dwellers. To make so beastly a world bearable, an author should ensure that disgust is in his characters' minds and not in his own. At this Boyd does not invariably succeed. In the title story, for example...