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...spectrum. But obesity, also a visual cue of infertility and unhealthiness, is hardly a worthy goal. The Western world prefers to appear hungry rather than sated. Commonly understood in the fashion industry is the concept that runway models are not the main attraction, but merely human coat hangers, used to display designers’ wares. Inexplicably, these human coat hangers have become the standard of beauty. As Grammer writes, although attractive features themselves are “cross-culturally universal,” socio-economic factors within cultures do modify them slightly. Maybe our abundant resources have spoiled us into...
...loveliest number is "Something." All right; it's a great song; if it were done in the dark it would still be wonderful. But Champagne's version is as good as the original, maybe better. Three young women swing, on coat-hanger-shaped trapezes, above a man who yearns for all of them but can possess none. The women's description of arcs and helixes in the air, the grace and complexity of their movements, cast a spell over the audience. It's a mesmerizing form of sorcery in motion...
...after watching another deceptive curveball break over the heart of the plate for called strike three. Now that I knew my pubescent wrist wouldn’t shatter if I tried to snap one off. Now that I could be sure Trotman wouldn’t turn on a hanger...
...floor of the Carpenter Center, with the low afternoon sun streaming through the large plate-glass windows. She has recently been awarded the Louis Sudler Prize in the Arts by the Office for the Arts (OFA). She wears a black military flight suit. Her pinstriped pants hang on a hanger in one window. She walks with a determined step, her feet set wide...
...Lear household, where Bettie was tearing the place up. He sat her in the patrol car while he took a statement from Harry. Returning to the car, he "saw Bettie in the back seat, with her dress pulled up, panties around her knees, masturbating with a coat hanger that the officer had left" there. Fitzpatrick's report: "defendant psycho." Assault and battery and disorderly conduct charges were dropped after she recommitted herself to Jackson Memorial, where she spent six months, part of it under a suicide watch...