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...grateful for these advances in the architecture of swimwear, and I fervently await the dream suit that will be engineered to massage flesh northward from the belly to the bosom, where it will cluster in great alpine masses. The trouble is, though, that no matter how much a bathing suit can do for you, it cannot do enough. And I state this as a theoretical principle, rather than a confession of personal inadequacy. A recent issue of PEOPLE magazine revealed that even the "most beautiful stars" are not allowed to display their own bodies in nude and seminude scenes. "Body...
...builds a display that makes the 5' cigars in his father's tobacco shop look more expensive. As a teenage bellhop, he boosts sales at a hotel concession. In 1894 at the age of 22, he opens the Metropolitan Lunchroom and Billiard Parlor, a winning concept that is expanded northward into the newly developing acreage bordering Central Park...
...another instance, the Jewish passengers of the ship St. Louis were refused permission to disembark in Havana harbor. After being turned away by the Cubans, the ship sailed northward close enough to Miami to be able to see the city lights. Telegrams to the White House from a committee working on behalf of the passengers went unacknowledged. There is little need in recounting the obvious fate which awaited these passengers as they were made to return to Europe...
...Great Concavity. This is a chunk of New England turned over to Canada and used as a dump site by the U.S. The method of garbage disposal suggests that environmentalism has ended up in the dustbin of history: monster catapults situated near Boston hurl their toxic loads northward...
...Snow" of 1886-87 turned rivers of the American West into glaciers that when they thawed, carried along inundations of dead cattle. Theodore Roosevelt was virtually ruined as a rancher by the weather that destroyed 65% of his herd. In the annus mirabilis of 1811, the Mississippi River flowed northward briefly because of the New Madrid earthquake...