Word: womanizers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...outdone, the women's squash team bumps off Princeton, 8-1, to capture the Ivy League and national nine-woman titles...
Fermina and Juvenal grow to care for each other, but to escape their boredom, they each seeks adventure. Juvenal has a risky affair with a Black woman from Jamaica--a relationship considered to be taboo at that time in Colombia. Fermina locks herself in rooms and smokes cigars, thinking about love and adventure...
...senior woman who tried the houses' offerings criticized the packaging method. "The box is too bulky," she said. "It's hard to be subtle with one of those in your pocket...
LESSING is a canny observer of the role of Woman in society. As in her last novel The Good Terrorist, the female protagonist in The Fifth Child is unaware of her subjugated state. Harriet is the caretaker of the family. She is constantly pregnant, constantly trying to run the household and organize the endless stream of guests that come to stay in the spacious suburban paradise. She is sometimes "pale and strained because of morning sickness and because she had spent a week scrubbing floors and washing windows...
...publishing scoundrel!" That is what the imperious old woman in Henry James' The Aspern Papers hisses at her ambitious lodger when she finds him snooping through her yellowed letters for his own scholarly endeavors. To the old woman, he revealed himself as the lowest form of life. Her reaction is not unlike that of Nancy Reagan and her husband to the publication last week of Donald Regan's For the Record. Like the woman in the story, the Reagans acted as if betrayed by someone whose loyalty they had depended on, as though they were the innocent victims...