Word: gins
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...cotton gin and the automobile were inventions that heralded a new age. What then, does the arrival of the Solarscreen System--which uses special tanning panels to create the illusion of tight abs--foretell? It was among the products introduced last week in Pittsburgh at INPEX, which bills itself as the world's largest invention exposition. This, it seems, is where they come up with those things...
Gump, like many other parents, sticks to "places with lots of kids' activities." The top family destinations are theme parks, beaches and historic sites. That sounded awful. Whatever happened, I wondered, to that kids' activity of my youth: playing quietly while your mother enjoys a gin and tonic on the hotel porch before dinner...
...really enjoyed my preview of retirement life. There's a pool tournament, cabaret night, constant gin rummy games and lots of hanging out with friends in the steam room. I've eaten sliced bagel chips just inches from Soupy Sales and Fyvush Finkel. And I've smelled Buddy Hackett...
...woman as a part of a still life, pretending to eat chicken and grapes, and drink brandy," Sam says. "She had her shirt open, but that was the extent of it." The second model, who was completely in the buff, "sat at a desk reading, smoking, and drinking gin...
That doctors regularly fudge on health-insurance forms is one of the dirty little secrets of American medicine. Go in for a checkup not covered by your HMO, and your doctor may gin up a covered condition to make the visit reimbursable. It's also true of more serious ailments; a recent study suggested that more than 50% of doctors were willing to falsify bills in those cases...