Word: grope
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...Then washed with soap and water. Then rubbed her skin with a net pouch. Then got back into the tub. At times her book isn't a story?it's an itinerary. Occasionally Iwasaki's storytelling cuts loose. She describes an overzealous customer who dared to grope her. Iwasaki wasn't the delicate blossom that she seemed: she chased the customer around the ochaya and, after catching up with him, whacked him over the head with a wooden block. "The man just happened to go bald soon after that," she deadpans. Iwasaki has set the record straight on the details...
...this progress? Is it necessary? The writers and directors involved in the more serious of these works argue that the nudity is justified and quite natural. "My theme is emotional honesty," says McNally of Frankie and Johnny, a play about a couple who sleep together and then grope toward a relationship. "Nudity is the right metaphor for what the play is about." Greenberg says he is "surprised that so much attention is being paid" to the nudity in Take Me Out. "Thirty-five years after Hair, it's just part of the vocabulary now, something that audiences and actors find...
...Fuel cells promise to unhitch us from the electrical grid, and that's good. We'll never have to grope for a hotel-room outlet again, and no more waiting for batteries to recharge, either. But details on how costly the devices will be to own and operate are scarce, and there are potential drawbacks. Will there be maintenance hassles? (Batteries are, after all, wonderfully simple.) Casio's laptop power plant is fueled by small methanol cartridges that are replaced when the liquid is spent. Will we want to carry spare fuel cans around with us? Will airlines allow them...
...possess a marketable commodity. It's a crime to sell your body in Japan, but the law is widely ignored. Young girls know how to get sex dates through Internet sites they access on their cell phones. In Tokyo, countless sex shops openly market minors for anything from a grope to intercourse...
...characters in Jennifer Egan's intriguing new novel Look at Me (Doubleday; 415 pages; $24.95) grope for something substantial in the blizzard of images and information that make up contemporary life. At the center is Charlotte Swenson, an aging fashion model whose face must be reconstructed, with 80 titanium screws, after a pulverizing car accident. Though she looks perfectly normal, her former cronies in Manhattan's trendy night spots no longer recognize her, and her old life of amped-up photo shoots and weekends spent adorning the yachts of rich men slips away...