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...WHAT'S YOUR WORST SKATING-FASHION FAUX PAS? There was a scary neon movement in the '80s, and I was a participant in that. If there's anyone I blinded with my outfits back then, I'd like to apologize...
...determine if a button or sextant is permeable, the investigators place the object in a container filled with neon, then later examine the item with a mass spectrometer to see if neon has entered it. If the object proves snug, its carbon dioxide is analyzed. Such an operation may require drilling a small hole through the antique object, but surprisingly, museum curators have not protested. Says Ogard: "Most have said it's fine as long as it's not in an obvious place...
...other warm-water coastlines around the world, almost all the recent development on Florida's panhandle has been large-scale and anonymous: thoughtless high-rise condo stacks inexorably blotting out those few stretches along the beach that still have a neon-lit, corn-dog-and-Dr Pepper charm. But between Pensacola and Panama City, Developer Robert Davis is building a splendid and improbable little utopia. His nascent village of Seaside is an old-fashioned hamlet complete with a town square and a Greek Revival post office. The basic idea is simple and radical, even profound: although Seaside consists mainly...
...great opportunity to point and laugh at the stereotypes she presents in her self-help book The 10 Women You’ll Be Before You’re 35. Assuming a tone most reminiscent of your older sister’s best friend if she was really into neon, James does not share the secrets for achieving happiness or a slimmer waist line, two cornerstones of the self-help book industry. Instead the book expounds on the various stages of female post-collegiate life with all its foibles...
...common imagination, comic books are associated with massively muscled men pounding each other into submission. Call it the Superman problem. On the other hand, very few books are illustrated in black and white, let alone feature a neon child-molester named “That Yellow Bastard...