Word: womanized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Minge recalls about 50 such cases-Amin had the ears delivered to him on a platter. Kisuule-Minge remembers five Germans-three men and two women-being brought to the center. They were tied up, beaten and garroted and their bodies thrown into the Karuma. Once an attractive American woman was picked up from her hotel, accused of espionage and brought to the pink house. The next day, says Kisuule-Minge, she was repeatedly raped, then killed...
...Chris Evert, long a top-ranker in women's play and once that way in Connors' court as well, wed British Davis Cup Player John Lloyd in a home-town candlelight ceremony in Fort Lauderdale. The 24-year-old queen of the base lines sounded blushingly unprofessional. Said the woman who has won Wimbledon three times and the U.S. Open four times: "This is only going to happen once...
...attracted to a handsome woman full of culture babble. Alas, he must bide his time until his best friend, who just happens to be married, breaks off his relationship with her. One day he does. She takes her dismissal with a chilling display of post-lib schizophrenia: "I'm beautiful, I'm young, I'm highly intelligent, I've got everything going for me except I'm all f-??up . . . I could go to bed with the entire M.I.T. faculty. Shit! Now I lost my contact lens." The sentence runs together like that because her completely contradictory sense...
Later, he tries to describe his first wife to this woman. "She was a kindergarten teacher, then she got into drugs and moved to San Francisco. She went to est, became a Moonie. She works for the William Morris Agency now." In that throwaway speech he has captured the archetypal odyssey of our time. Wistful questings, the dopey cons with which our society too often responds, the inevitable end in materialism?they are all there in that ingeniously compressed comic moment...
...What does your analyst say?" It is the man's first, natural response when the handsome woman tells him she is going to return to her last lover. Since she is on a first-name basis with the doctor, she replies: "Donny's in a coma. He had a bad acid experience." She sees nothing unusual in this. What do medical ethics or traditions weigh when measured against modishness...