Word: midriff
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...bleacher at the rear of the amphitheater, beyond the shade of the roof, a man with an unbuttoned, flowered shirt suns his ample midriff, his eyes serenely shut. He could be an orthodontist or a hardware-store owner, but he is probably the minister of a prosperous Protestant suburban church. Chautauqua was founded by Methodists as a boot camp for Sunday-school teachers, and even today an empty bottle of sarsaparilla (alcohol is not sold on the grounds) flung into the night is likely to bean an aestivating pastor. To one side of the amphitheater is the stately United Presbyterian...
...Added Rook: "Her Gone With the Wind dress is high, young fashion. It takes courage, and a lot more, to uphold it. And sitting through an evening in that tight, boned bodice takes guts, because, unless you stay upright and regal, the bones stick like fish knives into your midriff. All Di must learn to watch, which the TV cameras noticed, is the ounce or two of puppy fat which boned bodices tuck under a girl's arms. But you can't have too much of as good a thing as Lady Diana...
Castro's famous beard is necked with gray. His green fatigues have been artfully tailored to all but conceal a midriff bulge. Cuba's "maximum leader" will turn 52 in August. He has ruled Cuba for 19 years. Fully 45% of his 9.7 million subjects were born after Fidel and his guerrilla band came down from the Sierra Maestra and marched triumphantly into Havana...
...What's more, these contemporary villains have lost all sense of decorum. They try to impress by breaking coke bottles across their mistresses' faces (the gangster in The Long Goodbye) or they think that to frisk an old man you have to work the ulceric guy over in the midriff and bloody his nose by grinding it into the wood paneling...
When she finished I told her "You look like a fat housewife, you're extravagant, self-indulgent, gaudy and have midriff bulge. I don't need...