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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...
...Thais believe that a person's soul abides in the crown of the hair on top of the head. To bump, hit, rub, or touch the head is to offend the soul, perhaps causing it to run away from home." - Handbook for foreign students at a Thai university...
...first part of the five-hour trip the road is a smooth four-lane highway that whisks you past gleaming gas stations and a brand new Samsung TV factory. Then everything slows down. The highway turns single-track and becomes progressively rougher. For the last 20 miles, you bump along the ruts, distracted only by the swaying rows of silver-birch trees that flank the road...
...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...