Word: lovelies
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...kids all come back for Christmas--they don't come home, just back. About a hundred of them came back for the middle-aged man's funeral--he had taught them water-skiing, or they had been in love with his daughters, or both. They gathered at the funeral home, at the cemetary, at his children's house. They ate all the food the neighbors brought and they talked about how neighbors didn't bring food much anymore, about how there weren't many neighbors anymore...
...burlesqued the experience in a column: "Just one more script and that island in the Aegean would be mine. I wrote another script... No longer were we doing a musical about a paraplegic cabdriver who falls in love with a tollbooth collector at the Lincoln Tunnel. Somehow, inexorably, because there's no business like show business, the musical had turned into the story of a fast-food-chain heiress who falls in love with a Marine corporal during the Boxer Rebellion...
Last July 4 Baker hit splendor dead-on with a misty, elegiac column called "Summer Beyond Wish." The piece was set in the rural Virginia of his boyhood. It was full of love, the rich, buzzing emptiness of a country summer and the sense that poverty was near...
...Falling in love, getting married, having children, getting divorced and fighting over who gets ... the car and the Wedgwood are all serious. The new sexual freedom is solemn...
...were not quite able to accept that unpalatable idea; nor would a good many psychiatrists and psychologists-let alone ordinary people with healthy and gentle sex lives-today. But lately some researchers have been edging in Freud's direction. Indeed, the purported links between sex and aggression -from love bites to rape-are increasing fare in the social sciences. Psychologist and Sex Researcher C.A. Tripp argues that for both men and women some conflict is important to sex; without it, many good marriages and relationships go sexually stale. These views are backed by research into sex fantasies by Masters...