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...mother-in-law squeezed into a bathtub. "It got dark, black, and I saw the funnel cloud coming toward us. It was as big as a church and solid black," Peterson told the Austin American-Statesman. Family members clung to one another and sang Jesus Loves Me. The bathroom door flew open, debris covered them, and suddenly it was over. They climbed out to find everything gone, except the bathroom...
...years ago, Dineh Mohajer, 24, was a premed student memorizing hydrocarbon chains and looking forward to a lazy summer of shopping and hanging with friends. Today she runs Hard Candy, a company she started on a whim after mixing pale blue nail polish in her bathroom to match a pair of sandals. Last year's sales: $10 million. This year's projection: $25 million. "Someone asked, 'Why do you make nail polish for young girls with colors called Pimp and Porno?'" she recalls. "I thought, 'O.K. You're taking yourself wa-a-ay too seriously.' Like, pimp is slang...
...mean you're not inviolately heterosexual." Take this intro to a GQ piece on wedding gifts: "The nuptials must be attended. He's your bud, man. And it's not like you don't know her. Besides, you're fairly certain she hasn't mentioned that incident in the bathroom at Roberto's wedding." This is a prevalent mode of writing that might be called men's magazine second person; "bro" and "dude" also turn up as forms of address. The noun stuff--so redolent of uncomplicated, gym-socks-on-the-floor guyness--is another key word...
...will be in a bathroom, and brothers will come up to him and say, 'Quincy, my man, I can see that you're busy, but could you just take a listen to my tape?'" Gates recounts. "But, somehow, Quincy is always polite...
...much of the out-of-doors part. "People don't want to sleep on the ground as much as they used to," says Debbie Brunaforte, an RV dealer in Mesa, Ariz. "They don't want to spend an hour putting up a tent. You have a full kitchen and bathroom, and you don't have to pack...