Word: roomful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...excuses herself and goes to the ladies' room ("I'll just freshen up my war paint"), not returning until the man has settled the bill. b) She offers the man a cigar, quarrels with the waiter's addition, pays the check from a roll of 50s and makes a knowledgeable remark about the vicissitudes of the Baltimore Colts. c) She extracts from her ice cream dish a fragment of broken glass brought along for just this purpose. She and her companion complain loudly about foreign objects in the food, and both exit in a huff, leaving the check unpaid...
...emotionally invalid or, at last, hopelessly and rather touchingly quaint. The women's movement called a world of once reflexive rituals into doubt. The masculine urge to rise when a woman entered the room seemed a sort of humiliating impulse, uncontrollable, incontinent. A man seated on the downtown bus might endure agonies of self-examination before offering his seat to a woman. The male had to learn to size up the female by age, education and possible ferocity of feminism before opening a door for her: Would the courtesy offend her? It made for ambiguity: If a man studiously refuses...
...same room with the person he or she is living with when they come to visit? (If the child insists on sharing a room with his partner the parents have every right, says Tish, to say: "Look, this is our house. You can both go to the hotel near by and pay for your own room if you refuse to accept the moral code of this house.") Generally Baldrige gives unmarried couples living together sympathetic though somewhat chilly treatment: "If they are breaking a moral law, it is their business and no one else's ... It has become...
...quietly, no one around them need be aware of her actions." Still more surreptitious is the course she advises for a woman when she senses that the man is uncomfortable about her paying: "She should excuse herself at dessert time on the pretext of going to the powder room and make the bill arrangements then...
...young actor in a shimmering silk T shirt with a yo-yo appliqued on its front; the guests all deferred to him as he discussed his hit TV show. The yo-yo's weekly salary was something more than the yearly income of nearly everyone else in the room, and they knew...