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...Wear a dress and swimsuit that flatter your particular figure. Statistically and historically, white or nice blues seem to have graced the winners of pageants more than any other colors. Long, sleek and sexy gowns are better than big, puffy prom gowns. Don’t overdo it, yet for the Miss Harvard pageant, I figure anything goes! If you’re a male—I usually don’t recommend this for women in real pageants—show some leg and the cleavage that you worked so hard to produce for the night...
...We’re] a good match for doubles because she hits the ball a lot flatter and with more pace [than I do], so she sets a lot up and I close out the points with the volleys,” Bergman said...
...where the F/A-18 pilots eject). But his most memorable work is of a more sweeping sort. He uses a high camera gracefully, swirlingly, to isolate Burnett in the stark and unforgiving mountains. He can also get down on the ground, in low angles, to track Burnett's flight across flatter terrain while still stressing the man's lonely desperation. It's too much to say that Moore's work constitutes a reinvention of the action movie. But he does have a terrific eye, and he never forgets that his hero is one small man moving through a desolate and deadly...
...don’t flatter myself into thinking that we put a lot of pressure on them or anything,” McKean said...
...Although you can see it only on close inspection, a gondola is actually asymmetrical, flatter on one side and more curved on the other. "I always say it's because the gondola builders drink so much," Price jokes, though he then explains that the shape is similar to that of an airplane wing, only on its side and in water. It's all related to the way in which a gondola is powered - pushed forward with one oar by one person. The boat naturally veers right because of the asymmetry. But the gondolier rows from the right, which pushes...