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...trained nurse greets many of them by name. In mid-afternoon light, the figures seem to materialize and dissolve from the mirage that looms on the lake's horizon. Further around, Finlayson says g'day to the town policeman and the owners of the Caltex roadhouse. But her biggest, bounciest bush greeting is reserved for herself: "That's me," she says. "See the boobs...
Halberstam's bounciest chapters are about the decade's leading entrepreneurs: William Levitt, the former Seabee who applied rapid building techniques to construct Levittowns; Eugene Ferkauf, whose E.J. Korvettes chain earned him the title "the Discount King"; Kemmons Wilson, founder of Holiday Inns; and Ray Kroc, who turned the McDonald brothers' Santa Anita hamburger ) stand into a national feeding trough...
...married to Sam, one of the bounciest men alive, is one of my grandmother's closest friends. When Lil was paralyzed by arthritis one day this year, Reb sat up all night talking with her, keeping her company. She and Sam are younger than my grandparents; their love for my grandparents (and vice versa) is overwhelmingly apparent-and real. Reb came over to our table and reminisced...
...Chair, as Hall called it, failed to make the impact that he hoped for. But his efforts to improve it led him to a much splashier creation, which is now making an appearance-and creating a sensation -in department stores across the nation. It is the water bed, the bounciest bedroom invention since the innerspring mattress...
...city's passionate possessors snap up everything from Chinese vases to French furniture, but the biggest and bounciest collections are those of contemporary art. Fanciers of today's -and tomorrow's-painting, sculpture, kinetics and whole environments wade into galleries with eyes, minds and checkbooks wide open. As a tour of Chicago's top half-dozen dazzling collections shows, a new generation of collectors, many of whom are self-made millionaires, are brashly pitting their taste and understanding of today's baffling art trends against the judgment of the future and backing their hunches...