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...looking for something to wear under her famous body-hugging sheaths. Donna Karan Intimates now offers a sexy but supportive thong ($22 at Bloomingdale's), and others come from Nancy Ganz, Maidenform and Victoria's Secret. Made of lightweight microfibers, the thongs are a far cry from your grandma's breath-stopping girdle. And though some women still find the thongs a little risque, they're getting used to them. Some 37 million thongs were sold in the U.S. in 1999, giving the business a 20% boost in revenues over those of 1998, according to the marketing information group...
...remember when my Grandma Keillor lay dying in a little hospital in Onamia, tended by her daughters, and my father and his brothers came to bid farewell to her. They drew up their chairs to the foot of the bed where she lay unconscious, and they were very still and solemn for a while, but in due course they got to talking about cars. It struck me at the time as callous--I was 20 and a poet--to sit by your dying mother and discuss a particular low-mileage Ford station wagon you'd seen on a used...
...family was there. I talked to them on the phone. They were calm, supporting one another; my great aunt told me things would hit her later--when she was home alone. But Grandma and Granddaddy, assorted aunts and uncles were there then. It was okay...
...before the flood, and both came over with us into a new millennium, though they were enveloped in fog as we crossed the line. They make me think of Woodie Guthrie's '30s ballad based on "The Grapes of Wrath": "We buried Grandpa Joad on the Oklahoma Road,/ and Grandma on the California side...
...Sharon whose campaign jingle says he will bring peace. In his television spots, Sharon cuddles a lamb on his Negev farm and lovingly lifts his grandson into his arms as the sun sets over his wheat fields. Says Yossi Beilin, Barak's Justice Minister: "Sharon prefers the image of Grandma, rather than the reality of the wolf...