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Although the Senate has no shortage of clerical staff, female professionals are still expected to act as hostesses, showing a constituent, a defense contractor or a contributor around. In a Senate dining room, a young aide delivering papers to her boss was asked to remove her jacket so that a constituent could get a better look. She did. To someone operating in that atmosphere, perhaps, as Senator Arlen Specter said at Friday's hearing, talk of "women's large breasts" hardly seems such a big deal...
...tall, with tattoos in the shape of crosses and lines. The wear on his teeth suggests a diet of meat and stone-ground meal. (An analysis of his stomach contents may yield more information about his eating habits.) Well equipped for an Alpine trip, he wore a jacket of tanned leather stitched together with fine thongs. His leather boots were lined with hay to keep out the winter chill...
These snippets of exotic fiction mark the debut of Melville, already "an actress, a trained psychologist, a comedienne, scriptwriter and published poet," according to the psychedelic book jacket. Though the author displays similar versatility in her writing style, her succinct descriptions and forceful characters cannot compensate for the impoverished plots...
Sure, the reader learns that Siegert's father watched him have sex and his mother was an alcoholic, that he thinks his brother was murdered and that he spent time in a mental institute. But that could have been culled from the book jacket, and the text does little more to enlighten us. The reader is left feeling that the work of paging through this novel, the time and the electricity for the light bulb, doesn...
Wearing a soft yellow jacket with dark blue pants, Rudenstine recalled his first days as a Princeton undergraduate, when he often wondered whether he had made a mistake in deciding to attend college...