Word: menfolk
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Huitoc, a tiny village even further dwarfed by the mountains than Ollantaytambo. The men of Huitoc take turns serving as porters along the nearby Inca Trail, sprinting on rubber-tire sandals or ragged sneakers past winded trekkers while carrying huge boxes and packs. Today is the fair, and the menfolk have gathered to barter for goods while women sit in circles, gossiping and sharing home-brewed chicha, or corn beer. We hike above the straw-roofed adobe huts, along the terraces that stretch across the face of the slope and 1,000 feet up, as impressive...
...sure about those murders in Brentwood, but PAULA BARBIERI thinks O.J. Simpson is guilty of one thing--being a very bad boyfriend. Not that Barbieri's choice in menfolk is all that shrewd. In her new book, The Other Woman, she reveals that on the night of the murders she was on a date in Las Vegas with Michael Bolton. She had previously lived with Dolph Lundgren and hung out with Roman Polanski and George Hamilton. Barbieri, who says her support of Simpson during the criminal trial led to the loss of all her money, her career and her apartment...
Incoming Radcliffe students find in their registration folders a letter from the "Alumni Committee on Undergraduate Comportment," which cites an alleged increase in contraceptive device sales and asks the female students to "restrain the baser instincts of the menfolk." The mimeographed letter is evidently a hoax. The Harvard Lampoon denies responsibility...
...Glover). All of which would be more inspiring if it weren't for the florid melodrama and tinhorn dialogue. The villainous racists do everything but twirl their mustaches. The shallow plantation wives are cliches of another sort: "If it were not for the slave girls," says one, excusing the menfolk's sexual dalliances, "we women would have to submit to our husbands whenever they feel . . . healthy." The young Queen expresses her romantic outlook in sappy lines like "I want to marry a prince on a white horse...
Thursday at 10 p.m.: "Starving Artist" presents Gigolo Aunts, Menfolk and Letters to Cleo. $5, 19 and over...