Word: naped
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...tries to make him notice her, at first subtly, then more and more openly. He fastens her dress in back and kisses her quickly to the nape, but when she turns expectantly to embrace him, he has turned away to get his coat. Then to a night club where the urgency of her voice fails to distract him from the vulgar gyrations of the dancer, and finally to the industrialist's home where a huge party is in progress. One sees them go their separate ways, Giovanni attempting to make it with Tina, Lidia refusing to take any part...
When a Hollywood type says, "I see you've been to Sebring," he doesn't mean the sports-car races. He is talking about Jay Sebring, 28, the Alabama-born boy who has become dictator of the nape-line, tyrant of the sideburn, and keeper of the keys to baldpate for a list of notables that begins with Frank Sinatra and ends with Bobby Darin (they have a similar problem) and includes Milton Berle, Marlon Brando and Sammy Davis...
...blood-chilling tones, he was telling his rapt listeners what will happen to them after a Communist takeover: "They'll take a wide-bore revolver with a soft-nosed bullet and place it at the nape of your neck to blow your brain and your face into a bloody and chaotic oblivion...
...having been staged by Carlson himself, a racketeer with a clipped, cultured accent and a Byronic lip twist, who quoted Nietzsche, drank sherry and drove caddish foreign cars. About the only nice thing about this suave swine was that he would occasionally, in a contemptuous Freudian way, massage the nape of his socialite mother's neck with slender, manicured hands. Edge really goes for hands-only last year it disposed of a sadistic multiple strangler called Big Frank, who had an enormous pair of them. For his services to soap, Big Frank's hands were cast in plaster...
...also try desperately to hold her husband against the competition of "pillow" geishas, concubines and casual prostitutes. The tea ceremony, the fan, the kimono, flower arranging, the obi, the intricate hairdo, the beautifully mannered deference-all became subtle weapons of allurement. The kimono was cunningly cut to reveal the nape of the neck, a feature that to Japanese men seems more erotic than bosom or thigh...