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...Park Avenue and the Waldorf's Peacock Alley, you could also almost see, as well as hear, a thousand snuffles. The mood of attendees was not helped, either, by the never ending line for the hand-held gizmo that enables you to sign up for sessions remotely; I got mine at the third attempt...
...incongruous, hanging upside-down from the ceiling that way. With her long hair dangling downwards, and her breasts molded like two perfect teardrops under her white T-shirt. So pretty. I climbed back up onto the pile of books and kissed her. I felt her tongue on mine. The books tumbled out from under my feet, but I stayed floating in midair, hanging just from her lips...
...incongruous, hanging upside-down from the ceiling that way. With her long hair dangling downwards, and her breasts molded like two perfect teardrops under her white T-shirt. So pretty. I climbed back up onto the pile of books and kissed her. I felt her tongue on mine. The books tumbled out from under my feet, but I stayed floating in midair, hanging just from her lips...
...magazines are canaries in the economic coal mine, Talk sang louder and in a cage more gilded than your average hunting-and-fishing monthly. Brown, a British expatriate with an outsize personality, had revitalized the moribund Vanity Fair and given the tweedy weekly New Yorker a pop-culture makeover. But doubt swirled around Talk from early on. In the era of niche media, many doubted whether readers wanted another major general-interest magazine, particularly one whose mix of Hollywood froth and high-minded reportage largely resembled Vanity Fair's. Its editorial vision--vaguely alluded to as starting a national "conversation...
...might be too long to bear. Children working in sweatshops today gain little by being told that in 20 years' time their daughters will not have to stitch garments in a stinking hovel. In a recent paper Jagdish Bhagwati of Columbia University (whose zeal for free trade makes mine look Episcopal) puts it this way: "There is legitimate impatience at the speed with which globalization will deliver social agendas. We want to go faster...