Word: skirting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...case with Clive and Mrs. Saunders (Vonnie Roemer), a widow who enjoys flogging. Clive expresses passions for her that have no place in the patronizing domesticity of his marriage. She resists his advances at first, but to no avail. Undeterred, Clive sticks his head under her skirt and they have a jolly good time...
Against this backdrop of drift and looming defeat, Clinton, prodded by his wife Hillary, belatedly realized that the campaign structure in Little Rock had to be revamped for the general election. It had become too much a mirror of Clinton's own personality, particularly his tendency to skirt conflict, paper over differences and thus tolerate confusion. "He's got good political instincts, but the problem is that he's so facile and adroit that people come away thinking they've heard what they want to hear," says a senior campaign adviser. Hillary does not have this problem. "She's quicker...
...dramatized pump) made for Marilyn Monroe in 1958 shoot back at a 45 degrees angle, resting on 5-in. stiletto heels. It was a pair of Ferragamo high heels that Monroe was wearing in The Seven Year Itch when the warm air from a subway grate famously raised her skirt. Ferragamo's shoes were sexy without being trampish. His come-get-me shoes were elegant, not overt, their allure coming from the fact that they simultaneously revealed and concealed, which is the secret of all eroticism in fashion...
While Valmont seduces everything in a skirt, the Marquise is an equally manipulative woman. She claims that she was "born to dominate [the male] sex and avenge my own." She is a mistress of detachment. She creates a stark barrier between her true feelings and her appearance. These deceptive underpinnings fuel the nervous tension that culminates in an eventful climax, in which the protagonists learn that "vanity and happiness are incompatible...
...found not eerie skulls or flapping bats but instead plush creme carpeting, framed paintings of pottery and flowers, and cushy couches that seemed to jump from the pages of Better Homes and Gardens. There were decorative shells on the oak coffee table, and Aleo herself wore a light pink skirt suit and heels. Not exactly the setting of "Scooby...