Word: needlepointed
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...fourth wife and the mother of four of his seven children. She was introduced to Lear by her father, Ole Olsen, who was half of the Olsen and Johnson comedy team. Despite Lear's well-known womanizing, they stayed married for 36 years. Moya concentrated on her needlepoint and listened to Lear's descriptions of his latest inventions. Once she stitched the names of her husband's girlfriends and presented the needlepoint to him in a frame. One name was in purple because Mrs. Lear thought she was "the most elegant and imperial...
Alan Dundes might also find needlepoint to be sexually symbolic. One pokes a needle into small holes and derives satisfaction. What nonsense...
These dilemmas extend from the most polished of society ?where most hosts and hostesses have at last abandoned the practice of segregating the sexes after dinner (brandy and cigars for the boys, needlepoint chitchat for the girls)?to the working-class discos, where young women are cultivating a sexual aggressiveness that would have put Emily Post in an oxygen tent...
...needlepoint sampler with the phrase THE BASIS OF POLITICS IS COMPROmise used to decorate House Speaker Thomas (Tip) O'Neill's office. Now it sits in Energy Secretary James Schlesinger's office, a trophy of a limited but significant victory last week in the bitter war over energy policy...
...close votes-congressional compromises tend not to be unanimous-Senate and House conferees approved a plan to phase out federal price controls on natural gas. Fondling the needlepoint, Schlesinger exulted: "This is the end of the Thirty Years' War." It has indeed been 30 years since the first attempt to deregulate gas prices, but this last battle began 13 months ago, when the President sent his energy proposals to Congress. The conference committee had been wrestling with the problem for six months...