Word: romps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...relationship between Flaubert and Emma Bovary emerges as a passionate substitute for real life. "The one way of tolerating existence," he wrote, "is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy." In turn, Vargas Llosa pulls off a great escape by transforming criticism into a sensual romp. It is a delightful experience, for it is not often that an international man of letters admits to preferring pornography to science fiction and sentimental stories to horror tales. Perhaps even more daring is his avowal of old-fashioned formalism, of books "that are rigorously and symmetrically constructed, with a definite...
...string of three straight road matches against St. Lawrence, Clarkson and Yale in January pose a significant threat to a perfect ECAC record. The last Harvard team to romp unbeaten through the conference was the 1974-'75 squad, which finished the season fourth in the NCAAs...
...squad's early-season romp through the ECAC's weaker teams continued the following weekend, as Harvard took its show on the road to Princeton and Army...
Best of all, she makes her disreputable old father seem oddly heroic and their life together, despite the troubles, a comic romp. To read The Pianoplayers is to understand Ellen's observation, gleaned from watching those music-hall routines at Blackpool, on the infectious quality of laughter: "Once an audience starts they'll go on all night...
There were no upsets. The team everyone expected to romp to victory did just that--although the Mets didn't have as easy a time of it as the Celtics or the Chicago Bears did in their title conquests...