Word: bustingly
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...general store, under the gaze of a ceramic bust of Elvis Presley, drivers can buy everything from iridescent oil paintings (often depicting trucks) to pantyhose. What they buy most is hats ($30) and boots (up to $150). The newsstand is jammed with copies of Overdrive, the CB Times and Country Music News. And in a concession to the growing number of female drivers, Vogue and Mademoiselle...
...last year he began to hear the winged chariot of middle age. He became depressed and nervous. His dark, curly hair started falling out, and he lost weight. He wanted to see a psychiatrist, but feared it would hurt his career. He was obsessed with producing a dramatic dope bust that involved trapping cocaine traffickers from South America and France in one place. To make his case, he relied heavily on a longtime DEA informant, a French Canadian who calls himself Claude Picault...
...sure, catalogue vendors lost no money on such stocking stuffers as a $45 sterling silver Perrier bottle opener with two silver bottle caps or a $140 one-inch-high sterling tea set. A $200 King Tut bust was bought by some 7,400 holders of American Express cards. Yves Saint Laurent's Opium perfume, at $100 an ounce, sold like, well, opium. Beverly Hills' David Orgell disposed of all 18 of his catalogue-advertised $750 sterling-silver telephones...
Klemesrud aside for a moment, some credit is due to Esquire for a cover and cover story which has the potential to stir up the much-bedraggled women's movement. It's not so much the picture of Patti Hensen, hands on hips and bust wrapped in tight purple satin ("The next poster queen"), that might startle serious readers of the traditionally male-oriented magazine. Rather it is the stupidly stated fact this is "The year of the Lusty Woman--It's all right to be a sex object again...
...perhaps Chesler is making an accurate observation, in which case it becomes obvious that the women's movement is a total bust, for it has failed to convince women that there is something else they can do with themselves...