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That's why tampon promotion still tends to fall back on two features: protection and comfort. What this has meant in practice is that if you're looking at an image of a woman in white shorts, a white skirt or a bathing suit, and if she's displaying particular athleticism or confidence or doing any kind of water sport, you're in the middle of an advertisement for a lady product. Enjoy...
...Fernández's fall has been a steep one. Kirchner, elected in 2003, has been credited with nothing less than saving Argentina after its epic financial collapse of 2002. But he decided not to run for a second term in 2007, deferring instead to his wife, then a popular Senator. Though critics claimed their plan was simply to alternate in power for 16 years, Fernández won decisively and took office with a near 80% approval rating...
Boris is the king of pessimists, but into each reign some life must fall. It comes in the pretty package of Melody St. Ann Celestine (Evan Rachel Wood), who might be as old as 20 and who's run away from her Mississippi family to end up homeless in Manhattan. She talks her way into a stay in Boris' place, and in a trice, she has kind of a crush on him. They get married...
...song and dance looks like it was put together by Las Vegas choreographers and drill instructors from Pyongyang. It's a mix of high kitsch, discipline and idealism, driving home a singular message: love endures. The three-hour show has about 120 actors, begins with a musical play (Raindrops Fall on Roses) and ends with a song-and-dance revue (Amour, It's Something Like ...). The costumes are adorned with enough glitter to make Liberace's eyes water. (See pictures of Japan in the 1980s and today...
...very cute and Japanese about the productions, it should be noted that Takarazuka derives most of its inspiration from foreign sources - vaudeville, Radio City Music Hall and Hollywood musicals. In their stylization, codified roles, transvestite stars, rigid themes (which in Takarazuka's case is almost always boy and girl fall in love, conflict ensues and is resolved) and combinations of dance, drama and chorus, there are obvious similarities between Takarazuka and the traditional Japanese performing arts of Kabuki and Noh theater. But these tales of chaste love are told through adaptations of Broadway plays, Western literature and Korean soaps...