Word: bosoms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tells the Apostles that it is not given to most people to know them. An exception to this rule is his chilling parable of Lazarus and Dives: The rich master, consigned to hell, lifts up his eyes to the beggar, who has been "carried by angels into Abraham's bosom," requesting that Lazarus dip a finger in some water to cool him. Impossible, says Abraham, for "between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence...
...grateful for these advances in the architecture of swimwear, and I fervently await the dream suit that will be engineered to massage flesh northward from the belly to the bosom, where it will cluster in great alpine masses. The trouble is, though, that no matter how much a bathing suit can do for you, it cannot do enough. And I state this as a theoretical principle, rather than a confession of personal inadequacy. A recent issue of PEOPLE magazine revealed that even the "most beautiful stars" are not allowed to display their own bodies in nude and seminude scenes. "Body...
...once replied, "She has always been sexy, slender and bosomy." The latter adjective--so evocative of old-fashioned feminine allure, of torpedo bras and Pursettes, of Helen Gurley Brown herself (though she is actually wafer thin)--describes what is probably the Cosmo Girl's most famous attribute. "A beautiful bosom is a beautiful bosom," Brown elaborated. "If you don't have one, you look on with awe and envy...
...PRINT DRESS WHOSE NECKLINE dips well below the level of propriety, Julie Johnson takes a few dainty steps to the front of the stage, sucks a little more oxygen into her grand bosom and singes the audience with I Do What I Can (with What I Got), a torchy tune about the advantages and imperatives of being a knockout babe. Johnson's rendition, in the Larry Grossman musical Paper Moon, is a KO as well; she coos, she beguiles, she does everything but bump it with a trumpet. It's the sort of turn to persuade even a show...
Stoughton and Hollis, the almost-identicalNorth Yard dorms, offer one huge room for twopeople. Hollis and Stoughton roommates eitherbecome bosom buddies fast or spend the year achingto slit each other's throats. In any case, theyget to know each other well...