Word: sapphist
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Sadly, the show treats this hackneyed six-degrees-of-fornication observation like a major insight. Like Sex and the City, Word clearly wants to be a font of urban-sexual trend spotting, romantic wisdom and magazine-ready catchphrases. (It ham-handedly drops words like hasbian--a former sapphist--as if to scream, "Look! We're cool! We get it!") But it could use more of Sex's sense of irony. Instead it earnestly believes its most trite observations are brilliant revelations; watching it is like spending an hour a week with an overconfident college sophomore. The L Word has lust...
...other characters, but each is encased in the prism of Woolf's consciousness. Her husband Leonard (Nicholas Pennell) devotedly tended a brushfire of genius at which he was painfully singed. Also vying for Virginia's affections is Vita Sackville-West (Patricia Conolly), an avowed lesbian, or Sapphist in the term of Woolfs 1920s...
...maternal admiration and stability of which her mother's early death deprived her. Most important of these was Virginia's affair of the heart with Vita Sackville-West, wife of Harold Nicholson. Bell thankfully cannot conclude that their intimacy involved physical love, though Virginia's reputation as an "aging Sapphist' no doubt derives from her deep attachments to select females. In another relationship with a rival female author. Katharine Mansfield, however. Virginia exposed the malice and narcissism native to her character, qualities she shared with her father. Their friendship was compounded on both sides of feelings of jealousy and attraction...
...long last the charges that wrere made against Miss Douglas-Pennant and which brought about her dismissal are known. She was accused of being immoral with women, in other words of being a Sapphist! . . . When this information was given to Lord Weir he was so shocked that he lost all sense of reason...
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