Word: lovering
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...very few straight students at this University feel comfortable joining me at a dinner table of known male gay students. A woman who does so is immediately branded as a "fag hag," just as a White student who sits and associates with Black students is considered a "nigger lover." (Of course, we don't use that term any more--"We know better"--but the thought still persists...
...avocado sauce, drinking yogi tea, and talking very matter-of-factly of his "process of spiritual consciousness" as cars and pedestrians rush overhead. He says he left school like most college graduates to pursue goals he though would bring him happiness; he found a good job and compassionate lover. But he felt incomplete in both. He joined the Peace Corps and lived in western Africa for two years but remained dissatisfied. However, in 1972, he started meditating and was attracted to Sikhism. Today he says, "Nothing in my life I would change. I wouldn't live any other...
...Bleeding Heart suggests a slight thaw. Its core is a seemingly endless and inconclusive dialogue-SALT talks in the gender wars-between a 45-year-old woman and her lover, a middle-aged businessman. Dolores Durer is a professor of English at a Boston college, divorced and the mother of grown children. She is in Oxford, England, to complete research for her book, Lot's Wife: A Study of the Identification of Women with Suffering...
...film begins with a woman (Romy Schneider) obtaining an abortion, mostly because her lover is a boring failure. It ends with her carrying to term a child she has conceived with her former husband, who is not boring and is successful. Just why she left him in the first place, or took up with the replacement she now finds odious, is left unclear. Instead, Director Sautet cuts away to subplots involving the heroine's wide circle of female friends. The point seems to be that men are not much good and that a woman is likely to find greater...
When he and Syrie divorced in 1929, Maugham had already established residence on the Riviera with his secretary-lover. Gerald Haxton was a sociable charmer, but he was also unscrupulous, a gambler and a drunk. "Their relationship," writes Morgan, "had a dark, unpleasant side in which the roles of master and servant were interchanged and each tried to make the other suffer." When Haxton died in 1944, his place was taken by Alan Searle, a lower-keyed companion who enjoyed reading muscle magazines...