Word: balle
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...Klaw's patrons had more elaborate ideas. Irving was happy to oblige; and Bettie, happy or not, obliged too. By modern standards, the results were mild. In films with explicitly descriptive catalog titles (Hobbled in Kid Leather Harness), a woman will be tied up, or ball-gagged, or put in the trunk of a car. This time, Bettie shared the screen with another woman, usually Roz Greenwood - the star couldn't put herself in bondage. But the performers never got hurt; at times you'll catch them giggling at the indignities they were asked to portray. If there's kink...
...book's most moving story, "Distant Rain," is done entirely as a simulated collage, with drawings of little scraps of imagined private poetry - the poems that people "never let anyone else read." One night, they come together into a giant ball, which levitates over the city before breaking up and showering back down to earth as a new kind of precipitation. In the morning, everyone discovers a random fragment, containing "various faded words pressed into accidental verses." And to each reader they "whisper something different," touching lives with a "strange feeling of weightlessness...
...future of an Ignatieff-led coalition is uncertain. “The ball is in Mr. Harper’s court,” said Fairbrother. “But he needs to earn back the trust of the government and deliver a budget that responds to the concerns of the Canadian people...
...offense we were really trusting each other, moving the ball around,” Housman said...
...team still needed a spark, and it looked to Lin to provide it. With nine minutes to play, Lin took the ball, faked left, drove right, and beat the whole Huskies team to the hoop, throwing down a tomahawk jam that brought Lavietes to its feet...