Word: breast
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...Waltham, Mass., at Yolanda's, Proprietor Yolanda Cellucci is shooting for a different market. Along with more traditional items, Yolanda offers a slinky jersey number with a peekaboo keyhole shape cut from below breast to just below the navel. For her own daughter's wedding last January, Yolanda ran up a gown of white leather, python skin, fox, mink, Swakara and gold cloth with a complementing jacket of Russian golden sable. Such an outfit might seem a little . . . well, declamatory, but it was certainly of a piece with the proceedings, whose wintry "theme" was Doctor Zhivago. The bride and bridegroom...
While the government continues to be under pressure to make a clean breast of the Shin Bet scandal, the public is ambivalent. A poll published last week by the Tel Aviv newspaper Hadashot showed that 47.6% of those questioned opposed an inquiry of any kind, while 28.8% were in favor and 19.4% supported a secret investigation...
...original contribution to the predictable clutter of statue memorabilia that would accompany the centennial festivities. Correspondents in the U.S. and abroad joined the staff in New York in suggesting, winnowing and eventually reporting the stories. Says ! Senior Editor Christopher Porterfield, the smiling fellow pictured with a flag in his breast pocket, who was in charge of the issue: "We wanted a celebration, but a clear-eyed one, keeping our problems in view and retaining a sense of humor about our foibles." He adds, "This very undertaking is characteristically American. It is the journalistic equivalent of an old- fashioned holiday parade...
...pesticide heptachlor, which has caused cancer in laboratory animals. Milk has been recalled in Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma, and heptachlor traces have also turned up in beef. Last week the disaster took on a new dimension: tests showed low-level concentrations of heptachlor in the breast milk of some 70 Arkansas mothers. The women were among several thousand who brought samples of their breast milk to laboratories around the state. As more than 1,000 additional women clamored for tests, doctors tried to assess the risk of continued breast feeding. While the effects of the heptachlor have...
...assessed by anyone who visits the Reynolds retrospective now running at London's Royal Academy. Reynolds' paintings have long since faded, mimicking his reputation. "Sir Sploshua," as others called him for his generous and Rubenesque handling of wet paint surfaces, had an imp of fakery lodged in his breast. He was determined to produce, for his clientele of the great, the tone and mellowed appearance of European seicento art. To this end he would whip up weird mayonnaises of wax, turps, asphaltum, eggs, resin and oil. "Varnished three times with different varnishes, and egged twice, oiled twice, and waxed twice...