Word: trysts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Huebschen admitted he did not always feel harassed by Rader's overtures. After an office party in September 1979, the couple met in a motel room but did not actually consummate their tryst, Huebschen says, because he was "too tense." In November, he testified, he told Rader that "the sexual stuff has to stop." Rader soon sent him packing to his old, lower-paying job as a claims adjudicator...
Backstage, an entire galaxy of misfits awaits him. King is horrified by the "cattle call," an open audition at which nearly 3,000 players vie for fewer than 20 parts. He discovers a homosexual tryst in a packing crate, loses his grip when a chicken called Modine pecks its understudy to death and is replaced by Cluck Gable, and suffers a painful disorientation when he stands in for Leading Man Henderson Forsythe. The amateur actor drops his prop pistol, is smothered by a Texas flag and walks into a brass pole trying to exit. During a pantomime phone call, instead...
...wordplay and unfailingly rhythmic. He controls the pace masterfully, whether guiding the action over a cascade of toxic wastes or through a freshet of afternoon passion. And he can toss in a wisecrack at any moment. Running into his friend Eduardo the elevator man sometime subsequent to their tryst. Sears remarks. "We've got to find something else we can do together...Do you like to fish' Would you like to go fishing...
...questions are answered, a number of odd events occur: a beloved family dog is shot through the heart; Sears' ally in the pollution case is wiped out, gangland style; an infant is accidentally abandoned by the side of a highway; Sears stumbles into a brief and mystifying homosexual tryst. Amid all this activity, Cheever's attention regularly shifts to other matters. A scene in a supermarket veers into a meditation on the historical importance of commerce: "It is because our fortresses were meant to be impregnable that the fortresses of the ancient world have outlasted the marketplaces...
...Manotoc met the President's daughter last February. Imee and Tommy started seeing each other at public events and later sneaking away to a condominium in Makati owned by a relative of Imee. Both families knew what was going on and the presidential arm was long. During a tryst in a private home, Tommy told a friend, they were interrupted by a phone call from Marcos himself...