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This is the man whom Novelist Frederic Prokosch (The Seven Who Fled) tries to catch in undress. Normally an imaginative writer with considerable flair, Prokosch here employs the tired conceit that Byron left three notebooks at Missolonghi in which he reconstructed his life. As fiction, the book may appeal to those who want to see a flamboyant figure oscillate between homosexuality and heterosexuality with the nice indifference of a metronome. Prokosch uses all the four-letter words that his earlier elegance would have found quite supererogatory. Even more drearily, there is nothing new here about Byron. The hero...
...give my regards to my wife." Almost immediately Blaiberg was moved to a new hospital wing where, to guard him against an infection such as that which killed Washkansky, he was as isolated as antiseptic ingenuity could make him. Doctors and nurses en tering his room had first to undress in one antechamber, then scrub, then mask and robe themselves in sterile garments. Warned by experience that they might have overtreated Patient Washkansky, the doctors were giving Blaiberg fewer immunosuppressive drugs and in smaller doses. "Perhaps we treated the last patient too early for rejection," Dr. Barnard said...
What raises Gallo's girls above the level of genteel pornography is clearly visible at the moment in Manhattan's Graham Gallery. There sit, stand or recline ten of them, all in various voluptuous poses and assorted stages of undress. One, clad in a tank suit with a number "3" on its belly, perches on a revolving turnstile. Another, in what may or may not be a bikini top, cuddles on a brown floor rug. Still another, falling out of her low-necked dress, lounges against a lavishly embroidered sofa. The skin of each has the alabaster transparency...
Tight Suitcase. Besides, Johnny cannot walk a block without being bugged for autographs or buttonholed by chirping women who invariably announce: "I undress in front of you every night, and my husband doesn't mind." Equally oppressive are the men who ask coyly: "Can't you come on a little earlier-you're ruining our love life." Carson knows these lines well: he has used them himself. Still, he laughs on the outside, cringes on the inside, and shrugs, "I guess it goes with...
...according to Rumanian track officials, suffering from a "calcified right tendon," and might never be able to compete again. Maria Vittoria Trio, a raven-haired Italian broad jumper, refused to submit to a physical on religious grounds. "I have been raised a Catholic," she said, "and I refuse to undress in front of unknown people...