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...lapses, the double-greet usually results in an unsettling stare. This stare is more quizzical than disdainful, but it still strikes fear into the heart of even the most intrepid sales associate. Does courtesy, however redundant, warrant an apology? Would a rapid retreat into the camouflage of the throw-pillow racks be an act of cowardice, or one of judicious modesty? The implications are staggering...
...bound Chinese women and lotus shoes. Upstairs are examples of undergarments worn though the years to enable women to fit into the fashions of the day (no big Bridget Jones panties, though) and modern designs that attempt to change the body structure. Think a Comme des Garçons' pillow dress, which for thousands of dollars contrived to make the well-dressed woman look as if she had been mysteriously inflated in all the wrong places...
...granddaddy's knee as a boy and hearing stories about how the old man fought under the fearless Confederate hero Nathan Bedford Forrest, whose last name became Winter's middle name. This same hero, however, was accused of slaughtering black Union soldiers who surrendered in a battle at Fort Pillow, Tenn. He went on to become the first Imperial Wizard of the K.K.K. Winter, now 79, began his political career as a segregationist but today is one of the most eloquent proponents of a new flag as a symbol...
...said nothing incendiary but did blab to the stranger about subjects best left for pillow talk: Conservative leader William Hague "sounds like a puppet," Tony Blair "doesn't understand the countryside," and "his wife is even worse," Blair's budget is "a load of pap." These are the standard opinions of well-bred Tories, and even the "sheik's" paper, the News of the World, took the deal when Buckingham Palace offered an on-the-record interview in exchange for the tapes. MY EDWARD IS NOT GAY, blared the headline (which, unbelievably, the Palace approved); we also learned that Sophie...
...screen by a funny-looking monster; at another, somebody asks him about his personal hero while he is dressed as Hugh Hefner. And throughout, the film’s often eccentric questioners—a large robot, a philosophizing guitarist, a strait-jacketed kook and a pillow-clutching man walking through the streets in baggy pajamas, among others—succeed in stimulating the viewer with their odd appearances...