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Animal studies also support the notion that company prevents misery. Squirrel monkeys become more agitated if alone when confronted with a boa constrictor than when several monkeys confront the snake together. Mice that are injected with cancer cells and then isolated develop tumors more rapidly than those who remain with their cage mates...
...whatever you want and it's really nice," university employee Bill Brooks, an eight-foot boa constrictor wrapped around his body, said in a story that appeared in The Daily Texan...
...balloon of sinister black-silken hue" as she sits crocheting in a gazebo. Sister Malvinia escapes the toils of Victorian family life in her own way: she makes a career as an actress and is courted by a singularly repulsive Mark Twain. Octavia marries a closet sadist and feather-boa fetishist. Constance Philippa runs away on her wedding night, leaving in her bed a dressmaker's dummy with which her unknowing husband consummates the marriage. Fleeing west, Constance disguises herself so persuasively as the brave and manly Philippe Fox that she is appointed Assistant Deputy to the United States...
...through some 380 pages of prissiness before reaching one, unless the defloration of the dressmaker's dummy can be reckoned as steamy. Octavia's lovemaking with her fetishist, involving half a dozen or more petticoats and "fifty or sixty or even seventy yards of trimming" (including the boa) is rewardingly comical. Still, Oates' mock-Victorian diction has imposed its own restraints, as exemplified by such pronouncements as: "I am heartsick that there may well be those persons of the masculine gender, who, lacking an intrinsic purity of character, may, by laborious effort, and much unseemly exercise...
...takeoff of the now famous Richard Avedon portrait of Natassia Kinski, 21, with a languorous python at her thigh. For Atkins, that meant posing in the outfit that he is best known for on-screen and lying cheek by jowl with a 6-ft.-long, 20-lb. female boa constrictor. The result is a gripping bit of publicity, although Freud might be puzzled about just what Atkins is really revealing...