Word: wordiest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...latest wordiest woman to break loose and bring out the banner is Erica Jong--poet (Fruits and Vegetables, Half Lives), New Yorker (she lives on the same Manhattan block where she grew up), middle class, Jewish. Erica Jong has written a medley of a book, something of a cross between a True Confessions of a Feminist--How Tough it Is and a Portnoy's Complaint. The book is probably meant to be the new monument to the movement. It's got everything: woman as Oedipus, masochist, narcissist, feminist; woman as hostage of her fears, her fantasies, her false definitions; woman...
...letter states, "the author [of the book] fills 741 pages with what has to be one of the wordiest, most inefficient logical texts around...