Word: boob
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DISH, TEXAS The boob tube--loving residents of Clark struck a deal last month with DISH Network: rename the town and get a decade of free satellite...
Throughout the trunk show, he refers to specific girls whose personal style seems to exert an influence. Holding up a shirt: "[sizes] 2-10, flat-to-boob, everyone has looked great in it. Hobbs [Ashley R. Hobbs ’06] was wearing it with jeans earlier." Of a rack of suits: "Alexa [L.M. Von Tobel ’06] got a pantsuit and a skirt suit for recruiting." Each mention of one of their friends piques the girls’ excitement, and they grab more from the racks. "Because of your blockmates, there are, like, 70 pieces lying...
...Remember commercials? Those 30-second films about beer and cars? The ones you used to make a point of watching during the Super Bowl until Janet Jackson's boob popped out and they stopped making the funny offensive ones? The ones you used to watch between acts of TV shows, before you got TiVo or started watching everything on DVD? Yes, well, there's still a multi-billion dollar industry based on the premise that people still watch and pay attention to them...
Before the idiot box was idiotic and the boob tube gained its, well, boob, there was truth on television. The vast wasteland was sprinkled with islands of worth: news programs, those last bastions of truth in a swirling sea of superficiality, were always there to inform, frankly and objectively. Americans could sleep peacefully knowing that the Rather-Brokaw-Jennings triumvirate could always be counted on to emerge from the evening twilight, ready to tell an anxious nation how to think and what to believe...
...blamed her failure to sing live on a sore throat caused by acid reflux. Within days Ashlee was obviously warbling for real at the Radio Music Awards and telling the Today show the SNL episode was "mortifying." But the 20-year-old kept perspective. "I'm not anorexic, my boob didn't pop out," she said. "I had a bad performance, and I got sick." And on the bright side, she's now a perfect candidate for that coveted Zantac endorsement...