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Word: swap (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Auchincloss may strut a bit but he does not moralize. He delivers no indictments against aging millionaries who swap loyalty for beauty, and neither lauds nor ridicules youths who seek truth in the trenches of a war. And Elesina, the dark lady with the soaring ambition who taints all those who come close to her, does not pay for her sins, at least not as dearly as her friends, family and lovers pay for her. At the end of the book Elesina is still stunning, still wealthy, still powerful, and still adored. Even the palm fronds would tremble...

Author: By Joanne L. Kenen, | Title: Poor Little Rich Folks | 7/8/1977 | See Source »

...gulps with unseemly haste, since she harbors a yen for Wally, but insists that Wally's wife Monica (Joanna Gleason) share in the swap frolic. Christmas Eve dinner at Wally's house is the appointed double-bed date. But the catch is that Monica has not been told, and she raises demihell. Gleason, a fumingly sexy comedienne, hurls the dinner plates to the table like Frisbees and shot-puts the turkey. Then, like the perfect suburban hostess, she climbs into bed with the others, where monogamous love conquers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Unrequited Sin in Trenton | 5/2/1977 | See Source »

Some children in porn photos are victims of incest. Parents will have intercourse with a son or daughter, then swap pictures with other incestuous parents, or send the photos to a sex publisher. Sex periodicals, particularly on the West Coast, publish graphic letters on parents' sexual exploits with their own children. Says Los Angeles' Martin: "We had one kid in here the other day who is eleven years old. His father started on him when he was six, then sold him twice as a sex slave. The kid had been in movies, pictures, magazines and swap clubs. After...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sexes: Child's Garden of Perversity | 4/4/1977 | See Source »

...need a man good-looking enough to pick up a dame who has a sense of class, but he's got to be tough enough to swap punches with a power shovel. I need a guy who can backchat like Fred Allen, only better, and get hit on the head with a beer truck and think some cutie in the leg-line topped him with a breadstick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: True Detective | 3/28/1977 | See Source »

...North Shore residential area, consumption fell by as much as 15%. Nonetheless, hard-pressed utilities shopped far afield for additional supplies. A representative of Columbia Gas Transmission Corp., one of the nation's largest pipeline companies, prowled corporate corridors in Houston cornering utility men and offering to swap heating oil for Texas natural gas. A consortium of New York State power companies arranged for an extra 50 million cu. ft. of gas from Canada and another 50 million cu. ft. from California...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Energy: Assessing the Cold's Damage | 2/21/1977 | See Source »

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