Word: lapping
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...bathysphere or hacking her way into the interior of the Amazon jungle, only that jungle is all around us every day. Ned took her places most women don't go, or can't, or wouldn't if you paid them. She joined an all-male bowling league. She ordered lap dances at strip clubs. She went on an Iron John--style men's retreat. She even spent three weeks in a Catholic monastery, in which she found that the ancient question "Ginger or Mary Ann?" was still being debated...
...every aspect of his personal and professional life on the altar of mockery. Was his one starring role in a big American film (Around the World in 80 Days) an abysmal flop? Put it in the movie. Was he discovered, while still married, in a London hotel with two lap dancers? Allude to that as well. And has he, like everyone on the set, not read the novel? Then let him complain, "Would you believe a book this big doesn't have an index...
...effectively frozen--and a city-council member has been convicted (although he remains free on appeal)--as a result of a scandal in which local officials accepted cash bribes from a strip-club owner in exchange for promises to try to change a city law to allow hands-on lap dances...
Then I entered college and woke up. I discovered that I had been tricked into believing that invitations to tea and lunch would magically fall into my lap, that the most memorable part of college was the interaction with great minds rather than the interaction with alcohol, and that the direction I was to take in life would be a clear one as soon as I met the right people who would tell me just exactly what it was that I was supposed to do. The truth of the matter is I’ve barely...
...their trips to the developing world, however, the dynamic changes. Talking to women in hovels about condom use, Bill sits with his hands in his lap, nodding robotically, while Melinda leans forward to ask questions and hold babies. On the first day of their trip, after flying all night to Dhaka, Bangladesh, from Seattle, the Gateses visited a place known as the Cholera Hospital, where they are helping fund groundbreaking research on pneumonia. On their tour, they walked into a room full of 30 crying babies and their mothers. All the babies had cholera, and they were lying on gurneys...