Word: bra
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Despite the attention generated by his reform ideas, Thompson is no intellectual. (A former state Democratic chairwoman once quipped that his I.Q. was smaller than her bra size.) But the secret of his success lies in his charm and powers of persuasion. "I'm probably one of the most gregarious, outgoing people that you've ever seen," he says. "You know, people have always underestimated...
...without limiting his style. Dr. Ordinary is anything but: "He found God with no difficulty, but locating his belief another matter." Miss Resignation "liked football and was absolutely certain that she could have been an excellent off-tackle, slant-type runner . . . 44 was her number. Forty-four was her bra size, too. This had held her back in life, she felt." Occasionally the other characters in these fragments become a little too wacko, as if they were acting out for the onlookers. But Powell has a unique and vigorous imagination, and his eccentricity, studied or spontaneous, is to be treasured...
Allen built the wall in 1954, establishing Tonight as a bedtime slot for zany comedy and snappy conversation. For five years beginning in 1957, Paar turned it into a wailing wall; he made Tonight into Event TV by tangling with politicians and crackpots, discussing his young daughter's training bra, walking off the show one night after the censors clipped a joke. And Carson, unquestionably the longest lived power player in TV, bought the wall. Or rather, as his popularity and contract demands escalated, NBC bought...
...could say I am turning men into swine, but I also have this other side of my head that is saying that I am forcing men -- not forcing, asking men -- to behave in ways that they are not supposed to have in society. If they want to wear a bra, they can wear a bra. If they want to cry, they can cry. If they want to kiss another man, they can kiss another man. I give them license to do that. My rebellion is not just against my father but against the priests and all the men who made...
...There are people who dress just in a decorated bra and underwear," she says. "The motto is, the more exposure, the more exposure...