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...okay,? said Wendy. ?Hold your nose and blow.? This seemed like contradictory orders to the lad, and five minutes of discussion was had about how one might hold one?s nose, and blow. In other words, the flight was smooth as silk...
...mother's reckless ruse has ominous consequences. Everyone notices that this Osama is different--"like a nymph," one man says. After landing a menial job, the girl is taken to the men-only prayer ritual, where each lad is instructed in the proper washing of the male genitals. Her deceit is discovered when she has her first menstrual period, and she is married off to an old mullah...
DIED. ALAN BATES, 69, bluff, beguiling English actor; of pancreatic cancer; in London. A modest giant bestriding nearly a half-century of excellence, the Derbyshire lad co-starred at 22 in the original London stage production of Look Back in Anger. But the Angry Young Man tag never quite fit Bates' protean gifts. As a charming killer in Nothing But the Best or a Jewish prisoner in The Fixer, wrestling nude in Women in Love or incarnating the lonely spy Guy Burgess in An Englishman Abroad, he brought strength, delicacy, wit and humanity to each role. In films he often...
DIED. ALAN BATES, 69, bluff, beguiling English actor; in London. A modest giant bestriding nearly a half-century of excellence, the Derbyshire lad co-starred at age 22 in the original London stage production of Look Back in Anger. But the Angry Young Man tag never quite fit Bates' protean gifts. As a charming killer in Nothing but the Best or a Jewish prisoner in The Fixer, wrestling nude in Women in Love or incarnating the lonely spy Guy Burgess in An Englishman Abroad, he brought strength, delicacy, wit and humanity to each role. In films, he often chaperoned showier...
...movie studio Hefner hoped for; it produces softcore videos for pay cable. The 80s saddled Playboy with the challenge of home video, which made sex with moving bodies available on television. The 90s unleashed the Internet, which made sex accessible, nearly unavoidable, on the computer. Then there are the ?lad books,? including Maxim and FHM, which have taken the Playboy format with one exception - they keep some clothes on their models - and devoured a huge chunk of the male market. (A PG13-rated sex magazine: I will never understand that...