Word: belinda
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...that our heroine doesn't get turned on once or twice; in fact, one message Jong seems to want to convey is that the once-innocent and always good-intentioned Fanny eventually breathes easily with her sexuality--enough, supposedly, to chronicle the sordid trysts for her daughter, the aforementioned Belinda (not surprisingly, Jong dedicates Fanny to her own daughter). And Jong does hit at some sort of admirable feminine tenacity that allows women to endure victimization. But what kind of goodness--either basic moral goodness or the good for Woman--is revealed in watching a woman repeatedly victimize herself...
...Belinda, 'tis true that the World is not form'd for the Benefit of Women, and oft' they must sacrifice their nice Principles in order to put Bread into their own Mouths and those of their Children; but I was ne'er so made as to be able to pretend Love of a loathsome Man for Hope of Gain, and it hath been my Experience that I have prosper'd nonetheless...
...will not receive a fee for his speech, only airfare from his Deer Lake, Pa. training camp and overnight accomodations for himself, his wife Belinda, a bodyguard and his manager, Howard Bingham...