Word: possessed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ralph: Facts are the backbone of good argument, my beloved. I hold here in my hand the current winter issue of the Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy. I quote: "From recent empirical studies it can be concluded that most (and probably all) women possess vaginal zones whose tactile stimulation can lead to orgasm." Apparently the long tyranny of the clitoris is coming to an end, dearest. At least until the next dramatic breakthrough of sexual science or the next wave of feminism...
What could possess even our President to disregard the reports of his own commission that if not for Marcos' fraud, Mrs. Aquino would have 60 to 70 percent of the vote? And why is he condoning Marcos' violence...
...unfortunately for the Harvard women's ice hockey team, the Northeastern Huskies possess all of the above...
Hence women like the narrator who are of childbearing age and still possess "viable ovaries" have been forcibly recruited into the ranks of Handmaids. After a period of indoctrination, they are assigned to two-year tours of duty with the important men, the Commanders of the Faithful, whose wives are barren. Handmaids are slaves to their own biological possibilities and derive their identity solely from their Commanders. The narrator's new name, Offred, really identifies her owner; she belongs for the time being to a man named Fred. She explains the duties of her station: "We are for breeding purposes...
Many playwrights master technique, a fair number possess innate narrative gifts, but only a few achieve a genuine, persuasive voice. When plays are described as depicting reality, the statement cannot be taken literally: a set is recognizably a set, not a house or a tree, and speeches palpably differ from authentically aimless conversation. What makes a set seem real, what enables dialogue to stand for experience is the writer's capacity to create an alternative world, distinctively his own, and lure audiences into it. That talent is the true measure of voice, a blend of personality and vision...