Word: sapphic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...course, this too is fiction: a tribute to and ripoff of Nabokov. Pera gives Lo a younger brother, who died in a freak accident (tornado, live wire), and a lingering devotion to her dead dad, for whom Humbert is a sexier surrogate. Lo records scenes of innocent sapphic frolics, moviegoing (It's a Wonderful Life is about "how everything turns out right because the father didn't die after all") and quarrels with her bossy, desperate...
...have usually sidestepped the question ("...whether Hick and Eleanor went beyond kisses and hugs...there is absolutely no way we can answer with certainty," wrote Doris Kearns Goodwin in No Ordinary Time). Cook simply takes it for granted that the ardor of their correspondence and their lives together was sapphic. Next case...
...bill, called the "Sapphic Safe Sex Task Force Authorization Act," asked that ROTC cadets bring back dental dams from MIT, where they are freely distributed. Anna M. Baldwin '00, who co-authored the bill,said it was "a parody of the ROTC bill" and shewas not surprised when the council did not vote toconsider it. But she said she hoped to send amessage just by introducing it. "Since theyhaven't been really willing to discuss or debatethe issue or address our concerns, this is justanother way to get the point across," Baldwinsaid
...train. In a climactic scene, one horrible man, a whip-mean, pockmarked little sheriff, literally eats another horrible man, the abusive husband, whom the ladies have barbecued and served up in their restaurant as an ingenious method of disposing of the corpse. Interesting fantasy: Render the heroic women crypto-sapphic, mutilate the men, or cook them, and reduce one to unwitting cannibal. Let the one good male in the bunch be a sort of big black watchdog, faithful and sexually neutered, probably the great grandson of Big Sam in Gone With the Wind. White women loved the movie...