Word: souring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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LOUISE SEEKS escape from the vacuousness of her own life--she feels sometimes "as if she alone were standing there, caught in a black-and-white frame while everyone else was moving around in color." To Miriam, the protagonist of "Sour or Suntanned. It Makes No Difference," the main problem, on the other hand, is how to avoid being contaminated by the grayness of other peoples' lives. To this unhappily observant child, the world is composed of an admixture of liars and fool, typified by an aunt "who spent her life thinking there was not much children could understand...
Later the women will learn how to pound their fists on their husbands' chests in childlike rage. "Men love it," says the movement's founder and guru, Helen B. Andelin, 55. A devout Mormon, she developed her methods years ago when she felt her own marriage going sour. Now, after eight children and 32 years of marriage, her husband adores her, she reports, and even helps out at the Fascinating Womanhood Foundation in Santa Barbara, Calif. Eleven thousand teachers have been trained to teach feminine arts and craftiness the Andelin way in schools and churches across the country...
...only sour note for the Crimson last evening was the absence of center Leigh Hogan, who is sidelined with a recurring muscle spasm in his stomach. Hogan's status is on a day-to-day basis, and there is a chance he will be ready for Friday night's semifinal contest against Cornell in Boston Garden...
...Ford weight is constantly monitored. Before his Camp David weekend, he weighed 195, the old football trim. He gained 2 lbs. over the weekend, apparently from the Sunday morning breakfast of waffles, strawberries and sour cream. He lost the 2 lbs. last week on salads and cottage cheese...
...Sour Gripes...