Word: haltered
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...there were doubt that it's a new era in women's tennis, the halter number Venus Williams wore at the U.S. Open dispelled it. The young ladies of tennis have been replaced by brassy girls with wicked strokes. The Williams sisters have created a media frenzy that hasn't been seen in American tennis since...well, since Chris Evert. Can the hair-beaded powerhouse stand up to the hair-ribboned champ...
...know Shoshanna through her relationship with one of the biggest TV stars of the past 30 years. Since then, she has become a pop-culture figure whose clothing designs have been featured on television shows like Entertainment Tonight." The line provides clothing for the "amply endowed" woman and includes halter dresses, bustiers, bloomers and, topically enough, thongs...
...sleep/ with Martin Amis/ or anyone famous./ At twenty-one I scotched/my chance to be/one of the seductresses/of the century,/ a vamp on the rise through the ranks/ of literary Gods and military men,/ who wouldn't stop at the President:/ she'd take the Pentagon by storm/ in halter dress and rhinestone extras," Garrison writes in "An Idle Thought." (It could be retitled "Oh, How I Would Have Put You to Shame, Monica Lewinsky.") Garrison's efforts won her a book blurb from feminist columnist Katha Pollitt, who described the poems as "brave, elegant, edgy...
...mayor, Daniel Simonpieri, 45, has put his local library in a similar ideological vise. Toulon's mayor, Jean-Marie Le Chevallier, 60, who won the Front's only parliamentary seat this month, forbade organizers of the local book fair to give a literary award to Jewish writer Marek Halter, claiming his work was too "internationalist." Demoralized and dispirited though they are, opponents of the Front's municipal governments are striking back with tracts, demonstrations and information campaigns. "To fight the National Front, you have to convince people one by one about what they're doing," says Ahmed Touati...
...anti-weed agenda. The author quotes a few scary tidbits from the FBI: "He [the user] becomes a fiend with savage or 'cave man' tendencies. His sex desires are aroused and some of the most horrible crimes result..." Horrible crimes, not the least of which were Dingo boots, halter tops and the Average White Band...