Word: sexualize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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David and Harriet aspire to a life of "pleasant suburbia." They are not swept up in the social causes of their peers, and their rejection of the sexual freedom offered by late 20th century society is symbolized by their denouncing of the Pill. Instead, they dream of a life of quiet domesticity directed toward making a large, happy family named, appropriately, the Lovatts...
...trial on Long Island last month, he made a stunning recantation. He had invented the murder story, he tearfully claimed, because he was ashamed to tell the truth: Holland had begged him to wrap a rope around her neck to produce a state of near suffocation, called sexual asphyxia, that is said to heighten erotic pleasure. In his excitement, he said, he pulled too hard. Nassau County Prosecutor Kenneth Littman derided the new story as the "oops defense." But the jury found Porto guilty on only the lesser charge of criminally negligent homicide, a crime punishable by no more than...
...father Denis, a retired policeman. "That phrase wasn't even part of my daughter's vocabulary." It had, however, become part of the public's vocabulary earlier this year during the "preppie murder" trial of Robert Chambers, who claimed to have killed Jennifer Levin accidentally during an unbridled sexual episode in Manhattan's Central Park. Last week Levin's father Steven held a press conference to protest such defense tactics. "It's become open season on women," he said. Porto Prosecutor Littman agrees: "Rough sex is the defense du jour...
...murder charges in the death of his wife. Julia Bulloch's body, bound to a chair with adhesive tape, had been found in the burned remains of the couple's garage, which Bulloch admitted torching. He claimed that his wife had choked to death accidentally during an episode of sexual bondage. Though he faced the death penalty for murder, he drew only a seven-year prison term on the lesser charge of manslaughter. Frustrated prosecutors have now moved to try him for arson...
...Thackeray's Pendennis -- few of his witticisms translate well into print, because he does not write rounded, formal speeches. The movie men in Speed-the-Plow, much like the thugs in American Buffalo (1975), the actors in A Life in the Theater (1977) and the singles-bar habitues of Sexual Perversity in Chicago, erupt naturalistically in fragments, in repetitions, in overlapping counterpoint of threats and expostulations and profuse four-letter words. Their conversation sounds authentic, yet is so idiosyncratic to its author that a couple of minutes suffice to identify it as his. This quicksilver gift of language, joined with...