Word: closets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...means let's have sex in fiction. Let's take coitus out of the closet and off the altar and put it on the continuum of human behavior." That was Author John Updike talking, in George Plimpton's quarterly Paris Review. Said John: "I plotted Couples almost entirely in church-little shivers and urgencies I would note down on the program and carry down to the office Monday...
...more sexually insinuative in speech than Williamson, though in Hamlet's dirty, double-meaning banter with Ophelia ("country matters?") the voice is not that of a suitor out to shock but of a weary fornicator already tired of the flesh he has groped too often. As for the closet scene with Queen Gertrude, Williamson would have positively horrified the perhaps apocryphal British playgoer who said: "No gentleman would speak to his mother that...
...Atwood had the closet scare of his Harvard squash career in winning, 11-15, 18-17, 18-16, 17-18, 15-8. His opponent Bill Swigart was the first player to take a game off Atwood all year...
Walking on Mower's warped floors is like walking over little hills and valleys. Entrance doors to two suites were inaccessible until they were planed and sanded, and one closet door is still blocked by a hilly floor...
...once rakish and boyish, appeared in a red shirt, Hush Puppies and a tattered eye patch,* to tell reporters in Ramparts' offices in the Fisherman's Wharf area of San Francisco: "The magazine is bankrupt; the phones are out; there's no booze in the closet; we're dead...