Word: bump
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...what Garbo and Bettie Page both had was It - a radiance, a mystery of personality, that transcends technique and passeth understanding. Bettie had a message that defined her medium, and a magic that defied it. The dance films she did may have been cheesy documents of bump-and-grind; the bondage films, creepy if dainty invocations of sadomasochism. But what everyone remembers about Bettie, aside from her trademark bangs, is her smile. Guileless and guiltless, it conveyed an Edenic sensuality. To her fans and her official detractors, who might have agreed that sex was dirty, Bettie's giddy energy said...
...Bump Antiseptic Wipes Owie, you have a boo-boo! Mr. Bump will make it all better! After I stabbed myself with a pair of scissors trying to open a box, one of the lavender-scented Mr. Bump Antiseptic Wipes actually did just that. Well, it cleaned out the gash so it could heal nicely - which made me Little Miss Smiley. Price: $6.50 for a box of eight individually wrapped wipes...
...lines like “I be on the hotline, like err’day / Makin’ sure the DJ know what I want him to play,” Knowles drops the gimmicky metaphors of the first disc and gives us what we want: infectious hooks to bump on our stereos. Beyoncé or Sasha (or whatever you want to call her) takes a page from Rihanna’s playbook, with repetitive “Ehs” and “Ohs” appearing on most tracks on the disc. Although the beats possess...
...we’re really trying to get is to produce the right product out of that expansion,” Thieme said. “The financing system has to change, and instead of favoring specialists, we should find a way to finance primary care. This is one bump in the road, allowing the Department of Public Health to put more scrutiny on the projects.” But John Erwin, director of the Conference of Boston Teaching Hospitals, said he was confident that teaching hospitals bring mutually beneficial expertise and resources to community health care centers, and that...
...just 4% during that same time period, according to Innovest. The savings rate has similarly declined relative to credit-card balances. Meanwhile, home equity, the biggest source of wealth for most families, has been drained by the mortgage crisis. "There isn't a cushion for anyone who has a bump in the road," says Levitin. "Credit cards are often the first place where we start to see all the other problems show up, from medical bills to divorce to a death in the family." And then, of course, there's unemployment. Thus, it's not surprising that credit defaults...