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'Meretricious. That's the word I'd use, if asked.'

He is a man of about forty, Jewish, American, pleasant-looking, a bit of a paterfamilias.

this author quotes at the beginning of her book a saying which, redolent as it is of Western sociological mumbo-jumbo, nevertheless contains a profound verity

she turns virago and calls him ugly names

It was a soft, somnolent drugging sound, hypnotic