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...although favored by the same guys who cavorted in shorts during the blizzard of '88, can match up to those expensive down models. But if your stint in the mountains is a short one the renting fees should not be too debilitating. The same thing can apply for tents, foam pads, or any other out-of-your-price-range items...
...stick as closely as possible to classic European models like Vienna's Grosser Musikvereinssaal. That means a rectangular shape, plenty of wood and plaster, no concrete or vinyl, and a minimum of carpeting and plush upholstery on chairs. Harris has made his chairs of oak and carefully tested foam cushions. He has even installed individual lockers in access corridors to encourage dowagers to leave their fur coats outside the music-making area...
That's why I adored the idea in your new book about batacas-the plastic-foam bats that sexual partners can smack each other with. I rushed out and bought a pair, and while George was taking off his shoes, I crept up behind him (nude, of course) and gave him a loving bataca shot behind the right ear. As he got up off the floor, he shrieked, "Don't tell me that dingbat has written another book!" and ran right downstairs to our coffee table. He found it there, of course, and kept howling and slapping...
...beryllium disease among workers who handle that high-strength, lightweight metal. They not only develop respiratory symptoms similar to asbestosis but suffer from heart and liver damage that produces a 30% mortality rate. She deals with lung damage from such new chemicals as tolylene diisocyanate, widely used in foam rubber products; nerve diseases caused by various new solvents used in the printing industry; damage to nerves and organs from carbon disulfide among workers in rayon textile plants. Muscle and Blood also explores continuing safety hazards in the mining and automobile industries, as well as the psychological stresses in automated assembly...
...waved from our ships upon the briny foam...