Word: prick
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fourth, I was a virgin. And being fed on nineteenth century novels, I believed in "romantic love." And I had no intentions of losing my precious status until I was good and ready. Fourth strike--I was, by virtue of my female sex, a prick tease, a Bitch Goddess...
This more than decent production of a more than indecent play should prick the titillation of everybawdy...
...dream -- indeed, the more chastening aspects of the culture may strike his audience harshly -- but a dream of a culture with a communal definition of humanity. When a would-be bride is thought unfaithful, the target of revenge is the poor girl's family; but rival clan followers merely prick each other, priests perceive the correct music in the maiden's body, and propriety has been restored...
...throat fills with thorns and she wants to scream. The thorns prick into her life and bleed fire. Why should he comfort her in his lame-ass way? She doesn't even know his name. She mustn't awaken him again, oh no; but it would be better to move, to vanish, than scream, for she has no idea where the scream would take her. So with infinite slowness she begins to wriggle from his embrace. He is unaware...
...stage, and the Garden's assortment of janitorial personnel. The noises are functional, moving equipment, the distant sounds of machinery, the shouted questions of the cleaning women in the first balcony, the steady cross-Garden shouts from house manager Harold Neal ("He can be a real prick," I'm told) to the crew chiefs...