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Also Suedeheads. Their hair is shaved to within an eighth of an inch from the scalp, and they are dress in oversized workpants, thin red suspenders and hobnailed, steel-toed boots costing about$10 and known as "cherry reds." The skinheads are lineal descendants of the rockers-with an added touch of mindless savagery. When their hair grows a frifle longer, they refer to themselves as suedeheads. Skins or suedes, they specialize in terrorizing such menacing types as hippies and homosexuals, Pakistani immigrants and little old ladies. "Hairies," those with long hair or hippie-style clothing, are their particular enemies...
Because of these anatomical differences, the male operation is the simpler. After injecting a local anesthetic, the surgeon makes an incision about half an inch long on one side of the scrotum, draws out one vas, and cuts out a section up to an inch long. He usually cauterizes the remaining stumps of the vas and ties them shut with nonabsorbable thread. The surgeon then sutures the small wound and repeats the procedure on the other side...
...with comatose hilarity, passing the time in genial mockery of this poor human being, hopelessly circumscribed with only a quarter of his arms. These thoughts prepared me for the seahorses. They were a fluttering gathering of sylphs, slowed by water, their backs fanning them along by fractions of an inch. They looked timorous and fragile, as if an unexpected particle of seaplant would, upon collision, mortally rend the ineffable curve of their minute bodies. Some glided, some rested, some seemed to fall helplessly, let us hope peacefully, upon the grains of sand, serene but bowed, dead in genuflection...
...David Reuben's Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask) might better be titled More Than You Ever Wanted to Know About Sex* (*Because You Didn't Know What to Ask). Using a question-and-answer technique, the author tours every inch of the sexual landscape, from abortion to "September sex." And then some. Who but Reuben, for instance, would dream of inquiring: "What's a ben-waT (A self-stimulating device used by Japanese women.) Or, "Do fetishists get married?" (They do.) Reuben wrote his book, he says, because...
...starfish's poisonous spines, the shrimps quickly lifted one of its arms (it can have as many as 21) and began tickling the tiny tubular feet of its prey. Instantly, the starfish retracted them, effectively immobilizing itself. Then, after only a few minutes of joint effort, the two-inch-long shrimps succeeded in toppling the large (more than a foot across) crown-of-thorns onto its back, even though it weighed 100 times as much as they. Dancing across the soft underbelly of the helpless starfish, the shrimps forced the withdrawal of the starfish's remaining exposed feet...