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Word: swinger (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...helps the squeamish passenger keep control of his stomach in bumpy weather better than if they were called "vomit bags." Other forms of self-deception may not be beneficial, but may still be emotionally necessary. A girl may tolerate herself more readily if she thinks of herself as a "swinger" rather than as promiscuous. Voyeurs can salve their guilt feelings when they buy tickets for certain "adult entertainments" on the ground that they are implicitly supporting "freedom of artistic expression...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE EUPHEMISM: TELLING IT LIKE IT ISN'T | 9/19/1969 | See Source »

...suggestion that she might be involved in scandal would have appalled Mary Jo Kopechne. Then it might have amused her, for she was often kidded for not being a swinger. Girlish and gung-ho, she led a life that revolved around the Catholic Church, politics and the Kennedy family. Mary Jo, as everyone who knew her agreed last week, was the girl next door, or perhaps the tomboy, who played catcher on the office softball team. When she took her first Capitol Hill job in 1963, working for Florida's Senator George Smathers, there was a standing joke that only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mary Jo Kopechne: The Girl Next Door | 8/1/1969 | See Source »

Want to see a dirty joke? Well, there is a young widow (Catherine Spaak) who finds out that her late husband was a real swinger. He left her his private flat designed for orgies, complete with floor mirrors, and an elaborate camera setup for making movies of all the fun. Copy of Krafft-Ebing in hand, the wide-eyed widow goes through all the paces, developing a real yen for the "Aristotelian perversion." Only a strong, sober and steadfast physician (Jean-Louis Trintignant) is able to set her straight. But-surprise-he digs Aristotle too. That isn't much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Brains Without Wit | 6/13/1969 | See Source »

...heaven or hell in his own way," he says. Hefner himself is trying for heaven. What is more, the mass producer of plastic-wrapped sex, the purveyor of pop hedonism, the great anti-Puritan who is out to make every square feel that he too can be a swinger, is looking for a heaven less in the style of Playboy than the Saturday Evening Post. "You know," says Hef wistfully, "in the next ten years I would rather meet a girl and fall in love and have her fall in love with me than make another hundred million dollars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Hugh Hefner Faces Middle Age | 2/14/1969 | See Source »

...famous Polaroid "Big Swinger"--one of many of the Coop's famous brand name cameras. The Ideal Christmas Gift...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Christmas Gifts For Each and Everyone | 12/12/1968 | See Source »

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