Word: swinger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Westminster Abbey ended in 1924 when the then dean, Dr. Herbert E. Ryle, snorted that "his openly dissolute life and licentious verse earned him a worldwide reputation for immorality." Yet in today's easygoing society, George Gordon Lord Byron seems less of a satyr than a swinger; so a group of Byron buffs led by Derek Parker, editor of the Poetry Review, and Poet Laureate Cecil Day-Lewis have petitioned that he receive his proper niche in the abbey's Poets' Corner. Their word was good enough for the Very Rev. Eric Abbott, present Dean of Westminster...
...Swinger & Bum. After the Updikes moved to Ipswich in 1957, John found himself more than ever in thrall to his homeward-looking vision. So many short stories flowed from his reservoir of nostalgia that he collected eleven of the best in a volume called Olinger Stories-Olinger being "audibly a shadow of Shillington," Updike wrote, and yet something other. "The surrounding land is loamy, and Olinger is haunted-hexed, perhaps-by rural memories, accents and superstitions. It is beyond the western edge of Megalopolis, and hangs between its shallow hills enchanted, nowhere, anywhere; there is no place like it. Olinger...
...same time, Bachelor Trudeau set out to shed his image as a carefree ladies' man and swinger. "I expect to start mounting some opposition to my former self," he said. "I will not be the Pierre Elliott Trudeau I used to be." The demands of his new job will see to that. Rather than leggy young women, he suddenly found himself surrounded by burly bodyguards. Instead of driving his powder blue Mercedes, he is now being chauffeured in a Chevrolet. And at week's end, forgoing the usual victory parties, he went into seclusion "somewhere on the continent...
...French Flick is enjoyable. Robert, leading an exciting life as he does, has ample opportunity to fall in love with Other Women, as he does. His wife Catherine (Annie Girardoux) knows more than he thinks, but she loves him anyway. Robert finally Falls Hard for an American swinger called Candice (who is played by an actress called Candice Bergen). Sick of deceit, he tells Catherine everything and goes off to live with Candice. Meanwhile Catherine sets out on a new life of her own. But of course, in the style of A Man and a Woman, he realizes that...
Cherishing the delusion that he is a swinger, Stan is, in self-dismayed fact, a thirtyish virgin. Given to incessant self-analysis and self-recrimination, Sylvia has strained the juices of life into psychologically labeled jars. The pair's mating dance is jittery and erratic but unfalteringly human. One wondrously comic blackout sequence in which Stan is baffled by bra hooks, stuck zippers and the location of a misplaced contraceptive could serve as a catalogue of the frustrating minutiae that can reduce seduction to helpless farce...