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...major works of Henry Miller, I reflected much later, would always be locked up on rare book Erotica shelves and the keys bestowed to a spinster librarian. "Pornography and anarchism," I exclaimed bitterly, and longed for the bosom of Mother Advocate...
Since the editors of the Advocate have changed their format by de-emphasizing the biographical notes about contributors, the new Advocate reader will not receive the usual warning of "Mother Advocate welcomes to her bosom." However, the reader will probably be stopped by the first story in the issue, John Mautner's An Enchantment, which very likely will not produce that effect in the reader. The story, as well as its component parts, partakes of a diarrheic length. If the author is interested in attracting readers, he should take the advice he offers almost midway through the story... "but enough...
...most scurrilous keyhole peeper. For Manhattan's National Enquirer (circ. 119,055), a Sunday tabloid ("The World's Liveliest Paper") that caters to subway society with a churnful of cheesecake, a flutter of racing tips and leering feature stories (LANA TURNER: A GIRL NEEDS MORE THAN A BOSOM), Miller writes what is probably the yeastiest scandal column printed anywhere. Besides his own bylined sinerama each week, thick-set ("six feet when I stand up straight") John Miller also grinds out five other Enquirer features: a tearjerker called "Millerdramas," a trade-talky TV column bylined John Jay, "Inside Politics...
...slim-hipped, lissome thing with a new hairdo and delicate, almost boyish proportions-an interesting example of an old-fashioned trademark evolving with public taste and changing times. Seldom does one see the White Rock girl in her innocent nudity. No, sir! She's enveloped in drapery, her bosom covered and a self-conscious smirk on her face. The bluenoses have obviously complained, and the company has probably ordered little White Rock to put on her underwear...
...jersey, pearls, the triangular scarf, the pleated skirt, shawls, colored gloves for night parties, and cloche hats for that come-hither look -and Chanel No. 5 for that come-hither smell. In a baffling statement of first principles, the woman who banished the waistline, eliminated hips and deflated the bosom, announced: "The most important thing is to look feminine." Confusing the issue still more, Coco added, "The only line is the straight line...