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...consider yourself a historian, or are interested in what the first pin-up girl looked like, then by all means, pay your 85 cents for the subway ride over to the Museum of Fine Arts...
Although the notion of a man optimizing his room's sex potential may pin him as "sketchy," the sheer extravagance of these setups is impressive, testifying to an extensive creativity fueled by a powerful sex drive...
...would imagine. Lanes and Games, the largest bowling alley in the Boston area, is just a paltry 10 minute walk from the Alewife T-station in Cambridge. This grand dame of a bowl-o-rama offers two floors, 40 lanes and two different types of bowling options--10 pin and the New England phenomenon known as candlepin. Deodorized rental shoes, greasy communal bowling balls, fuzzy multi-colored walls and pink plastic lane dividers make this bowling establishment a palace where tackiness reigns supreme. Inside Lanes and Games, kids frolic and dance down the polished runways and shouts of delight permeate...
...vast right-wing conspiracy" that Hillary Rodham Clinton once said was out to get her husband can be a little hard to pin down. But among the President's defenders, one basic diagram goes this way: at the center is what they call the iron triangle, an illicit cooperation between independent counsel Kenneth Starr and the lawyers for Paula Jones. At the hypotenuse is Linda Tripp, the go-between who first alerted Starr to Monica Lewinsky's false affidavit in the Jones case. Around this triangle is a circle, a group of loosely affiliated Clinton haters who fostered ties among...
...translation, ablyprovides it. Calvino substantially re-edited thebook in 1954, toning down the Communism, misogynyand violence of his characters. (It is a littlemisleading to speak of the Communism, misogyny andviolence in this book because the tone of thestory is so far removed from the world of thoseadult concerns. Although Pin frequently describeswomen as "disgusting," this is, more than anythingelse, an eight-year old who thinks all girls havecooties.) Calvino declines to mention this re-editin his lengthy introduction, although McLaughlintoo generously offers that portions "hint" at anexplanation. This translation also adds someobscenities and a mention of the Soviet Union cutfrom...