Word: adults
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...hospital life had taken a toll. I was 20 lbs. lighter, stooped, and as pale as a death-row inmate. Lacking a hand and 3 in. of forearm, my right limb hung almost a foot shorter than my left, the length of a child's arm attached to an adult's body. In a light-green hospital gown, I wasn't groomed for the runway or my date of Jan. 2. My girlfriend, Rebekah Edminster, had flown in from California for a 10-day stint...
Skyler and Olivia had no adult notions of loss or judgments about helping me. Not long ago I had tied their shoes. Now they were tying mine. I had patched up their cuts and scrapes; now they were changing my dressings. Their sweetness permeated the house. Before Iraq, I had thought of parenting as another job--a lot of work with little payoff. Now it was a love affair. Skyler and I picked up our running chess game. Olivia helped me cook dinners--"one-handed spaghetti" was our specialty...
What if Currier’s “No Pants Dance” included a professional striptease? That is just the kind of party that might go down at MIT’s Simmons Hall, where students have recently approved a risque fund for “adult entertainment.” Residents of the hall initially voted in favor of the “SEX-C Fund”—Simmons Entertainment Executive Committee—last spring, and an appeal to overturn the decision was voted down last week by a bare majority. The creation...
...group of 20 riders broke away from the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association and formed their own tour (rodeo also includes events like steer wrestling). Today it's a $46 million business, and revenue has grown 150% over the past five years. From 2003 to '05, the tour's adult fan base soared 48%, to 18 million, far outpacing the growth of nascar or any other major sport, according to Scarborough Research. Sponsorship revenue has nearly tripled since 2000, to $22.5 million. Advertisers like Yamaha seem to be betting that bull riding will hit the big time. They like the demographics...
...sense, or has people sport bizarre accents for no reason, I sometimes wonder if it was done as an ironic homage to genre and I just didn’t get it. Questions like, “Is ‘Showgirls’ really a brilliant farce on adult entertainment?” or “Is ‘Gigli” about the way we portray lesbianism in modern American media?’ have tormented me forever...