Word: armpits
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...Photo, which last year sold about $100 million worth of cameras, personal computers and other products through four stores and a mail-order operation. The cramped and chaotic original outlet is located in mid-Manhattan above a deli and reached by a dingy staircase. The store, though, is stuffed armpit- to-elbow with bargain hunters: pinstripe lawyers who are on their lunch hour, families in from suburban New Jersey, Japanese bankers, white-robed Egyptians, high-decibel hagglers in Spanish, Hebrew and Korean...
...about why. It's not just the felicity of the phrase Desperately Seeking.... It's the statement of an age, an age of scarcity. Neither Tocqueville, nor Gibson, nor even Garry Trudeau could find a more concise image of the age than poor Susan (Madonna) drying her forest of armpit hairs under an air handdryer at Grand Central Station...
Before this summer, Bruce didn't erase my misguided shame about coming from the "nation's armpit." But this summer was different, no denying...
...Jersey without them even knowing it. He has made the unglamourous and uninteresting into something, well, glamourous and interesting. With his bulging biceps, faded jeans, 48-hour shadow, and gravelly voice he has conned the American public into liking something they thought they'd never like--the armpit of the country...
...marriage, I felt like a truss in a drugstore window." You think that's-overstated? Let me tell you what it's like to be a working mother, "racing around the kitchen in a pair of bedroom slippers, trying to quick-thaw a chop under each armpit . . ." Shared responsibilities? "Transporting children is my husband's 26th favorite thing; it comes somewhere between eating lunch in a tearoom and dropping a bowling ball on his foot." Listen, let me tell...