Word: buxom
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Finally there's the cover. It may not be a great way to judge a book, but it's not a bad way to move one. It shows a picture of a grim Adam and a buxom Eve (apparently using an early version of that double-stick tape J.Lo deploys to keep her dress in place), plus a Charlton Heston-y God. "The First Book of the Bible Graphically Depicted!" it proclaims. "Nothing Left Out!" plus "Adult Suprvision Recommended for Minors." That's catnip to at least one section of society. "I have a feeling," says Weil, "this book could...
...Berlusconi has carefully - almost surrealistically - developed his image (for both the present and posterity) as a family man, even alongside his fame for virility. In her statement about the young women on the electoral list, Lario also slammed Berlusconi for recently attending the 18th birthday party of a buxom Naples blonde, after having missed the same celebration for all of their children. "The family is always an open nerve in Italy," says an opposition insider. Lario's comments "can be a heavy blow [for him]. At the very least, it can put him in a bad mood for a while...
...year-old daughter Valerie lives with Down Syndrome. "Dolls represent real people in the imagination of a young person," Perry says. "I don't want Valerie to think she has to be conventionally beautiful to be loved." So when Valerie asked for a doll at Christmas, her mother bypassed buxom Barbie and purchased Elizabeth (retail price: $175) from S.C.-based retailer Downi Creations. Featuring 13 physical characteristics of Down Syndrome, including almond-shaped eyes, low-set ears, a horizontal crease in her palms and a slightly protruding tongue. Elizabeth, says Perry, is "different but beautiful at the same time...
...dream. As he wanders through the labyrinthine catacombs of his university library, strange apparitions—phantasms, childhood memories and the Jew of Malta, among others—haunt his steps and agitate his research in compiling a biography of... himself. Circumstances run afoul when his love interest, a buxom barista with retrograde amnesia, begins to suspect that the protagonist has been brainwashed to murder his own father. Elsewhere, a cabal of petit bourgeoise candle manufacturers study the cryptic final notations of a reclusive poet-sage in search for the last prophecy of the Knights Templar. Laughter, tears and awkward...
...Unsurprisingly, publishers tried to piggyback on Playboy's winning formula. Penthouse magazine, an upstart competitor formed by Bob Guccione in 1965, closely mirrored Playboy in format, with a lascivious mix of interviews, fiction features, cartoons and narrative pieces surrounding the buxom centerfolds. But in its choice of images, Penthouse lacked Playboy's sexual subtlety. (Professional competition aside, Hef and Guccione actively disliked each other; while Guccione promoted the rumor that Hef was a "closet queen," the Playboy publisher, noting Guccione's cultivation of a similarly decadent lifestyle, remarked that "If I were he, I'd want...