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...scrotum is much more vulnerable than a woman's ovaries," says Dr. John Marshall, director of sports medicine at Manhattan's Hospital for Special Surgery and the trainer for Billie Jean King. "A woman's ovaries sit inside a great big sac of fluid-beautifully protected." A woman's breasts are also not easily damaged. Scotching an old myth, Marshall says: "There's no evidence that trauma to the breasts is a precursor of cancer...
...problem was, he had forgotten both the charcoal and the lighter fluid. Vincenzo had come up with the idea of using rolled up pamphlets, and maybe even one of the banners. We voted. It was ratified, accepted into law in a matter of minutes, and soon the benevolent Bronze was warming all our fannies...
These are essential texts for Monet's lily-pond paintings, with their almost indistinguishable precisions of color, their deep tracts of the reflected sky (no horizon line, no orientation in space; the eye floats in an amniotic fluid of light), and their intricate play between air colors in the water and the solider rafts of lilies crossing them like clouds. Toward the end of his life, as his vision degenerated-first, after a series of primitive cataract operations, distorting his sight toward yellow, and at last toward blue-Monet rarely left his garden; but then, he did not need...
Kevin McKenzie, 24. Soloist, Jeffrey Ballet. Unlike most young male dancers, the tall (6 ft. 1 in.), lanky McKenzie started out with a fluid, adagio style, which usually comes only after long experience. His languid grace reflects an easygoing personality: "If dancing becomes so serious that it can make or break my psyche, then it's no more fun." He literally stumbled into ballet. Coaxed by a third-grade classmate into a tap class, he found he could not keep his balance; his father, a Vermont meat-packing company owner, suggested that he try ballet as a remedy. Even...
...when they meet for the first time as free-floating singles, each is edgy and hesitant. Before long the reader sees an additional advantage to the subject of divorce and the curious second adolescence that follows a marital split. For American society in most of its aspects is too fluid and amorphous to sustain a comedy of manners (since all manners are equally acceptable). Divorce follows an intricate set of rules, some codified by lawyers and some worked out anew by each pair of partners in the unmating dance. Koerner's ex-wife sends their children to visit...