Word: sexualizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Long Odyssey. He is doing just that. In March, Matlovich, a race-relations instructor at Virginia's Langley Air Force Base, wrote his commanding officer: "I have arrived at the conclusion that my sexual preferences are homosexual, as opposed to heterosexual." The Air Force began moving to give Matlovich a general-less than honorable -discharge. But Matlovich has fought the customary procedures by demanding that a three-officer board review his case, and says that he will take his fight to the Supreme Court if necessary...
...their eyes gazing mindlessly into space, nervous smiles on their faces, waiting for some big star to arrive and inject some excitement into their lives. Their relationship with the film idols is a symbiotic one, of the sort that Norman Mailer described in his biography of Marilyn Monroe, a sexual excitement that feeds the emotional needs of the star and that makes her feel all the more alluring, thereby upping the ante, raising the fans' tension one ontch higher, and so the game continues...
...allegedly having sexual relation with the 16 and 18-year-old daughters of a prominent Boston doctor. He went on a 47-day hunger strike...
...have two daughters, and am thoroughly in favour of sexual integration and equality of opportunity, and the further it goes the better. As a matter of fact, it has gone considerably further in England than it has in America. I think that when you Americans talk about women's lib, that what they're really after is equal pay and an equal cut of the economic cake. What they're really after is money, like all Americans. In England, we've had equality of pay and equality of opportunity among the sexes all my adult life. There...
...king's enlightened path is always blocked by problems. One of them is a movable castle full of French knights who defend their ramparts by shouting down intolerable sexual insults and pelting would-be attackers with a hail of dead farm animals-most unchivalrous. Another obstacle is a Black Knight of uncompromising combativeness; after Arthur has severed all four of his limbs, the knight perversely insists on trying to bite the king on the ankle. Then there are the guardians of a sacred forest who demand a tribute of shrubbery -something with "a nice layered effect"-before allowing Arthur...