Word: virginally
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prompted Wierzynski to suggest a cover story on the good life in Minnesota, an idea that sounded particularly appealing to our Manhattan-based editors. Setting out to document his convictions, Wierzynski went back to Minnesota, accompanied by Correspondent Dick Woodbury. They traveled to big cities and small towns, through virgin forests and across sparkling lakes and rivers, interviewing more than 100 Minnesotans-many of whom were anxious to continue talking about their state over dinner and into the evening. In fact, Minnesota's Governor Wendell Anderson and his wife Mary insisted that Wierzynski stay with them...
...sort of talisman, is an 18th century Madonna which, on patch cleaning, turned out to have a 17th century version under it. When that in turn was tested, the restorers found a 13th century Madonna by the so-called "Master of the Magdalens" beneath. The final palimpsest, a Virgin with three eyes, two noses and a pair of bambini (see opposite, lower right), was playfully christened "Picasso's Madonna...
International Telephone and Telegraph Corp. was founded in 1920 by Sosthenes Behn, who was born of Franco-Danish parents in the Virgin Islands and was educated in Corsica and Paris. With such a background, it is not difficult to see how Behn's buccaneering character developed. Starting out as a sugar broker, he got into telecommunications almost by accident. He and his brother Hernand bought a small, foundering telephone company in Puerto Rico. The brothers soon acquired another phone system in Cuba, moved on into Spain, and bought the international holdings of Western Electric...
Martin and Lena trade bitter insults, Martin and Karen have an affair, Lena seduces Carl who in his thirties was still a virgin, then Lena drowns herself. And so on and so forth...
Worse yet, the virgin may be suspected of frigidity or lesbianism, and in deed she may suspect herself of one or the other, just as inexperienced males may question their own potency or masculinity. Having intercourse only intensifies these worries if the first experiences prove disappointing. In fact they often do. Psychiatrist Moskowitz notes that adolescents are saturated with sexual talk and books, and may take as the norm the improbable exploits they see in pornographic films. Thus they develop superhuman expectations. Young girls believe that they should have intoxicating orgasms beginning with their first night in bed with...