Word: girlfriend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have been a valuable book if it had begun to describe how a high-powered academic community functions, how competition and co-operation blend to produce great advances in knowledge. Instead, Glashow describes a puzzle of particle physics on one page, goes skiing with a colleague or his latest girlfriend on the next page and presents a possible solution on the next...
Again, I hold no Ph.D. in psychology, but my girlfriend took Psych I, and she says that people who believe in ghosts and confuse mother and father figures have more than a couple of keys sticking in their keyboard. Goodwin's problem with slacks is perhaps symptomatic of a larger malady, something that I once heard Shirley MacLaine during a taping of the Mike Douglas Show call para-pneumoreactionary paralysis. I also have lingering suspicions that Goodwin's obsessive desire to paint LBJ as crazy hints at some problems closer to home. Lurching about accusing the president of being...
...ability to remain serious in the face of completely preposterous situations heightens the comic sense of the play. Particularly in the three-way confrontation scene between Judith, her husband David and Myra (Simon's girlfriend), Simpson's attitude of mock indignation is hilarious...
...casual spectators. There is Innocence, for example, which contains what is probably the longest description of oral sex in the history of literature. (This story decidedly did not appear in The New Yorker.) For page after page a Harvard undergraduate named Wiley tries to bring his stubbornly unresponsive girlfriend to orgasm: "The whitish bubbling, the splash of her discontinuous physical response: those waves, ah, that wake rose, curled outward, bubbled, and fell. Rose, curled outward, bubbled, and fell." Little in this prose marathon is particularly erotic or offensive; it is possible for long periods of time to forget entirely what...
...college years at Bucknell gave Roth a taste for writing and the sort of sexual imbroglios that would later crop up in his fiction. During his senior year, his landlady discovered his girlfriend in Roth's room and threatened, briefly, to have them both expelled. "It was the mid-1960s," Roth notes, "before I got round to exploiting this painful, ludicrous episode for a scene in my novel When She Was Good." But it was while teaching at the University of Chicago that Roth ran into the elemental force that would permanently shape him as a man and a writer...