Word: plumpness
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...romance novel for the postfeminist generation. Although she hasn't discarded the conventions of romance, Quinn is more than willing to tweak them. In Romancing Mister Bridgerton, her 11th novel, which spent a month on the New York Times paperback best-seller list last summer, the heroine is a plump wallflower. Her hero actually complains, with a sigh, that he isn't "dark and brooding." He is not a sexual predator either. "I can't think of anything in my books that any feminist would find objectionable," Quinn says. "And I consider myself a feminist...
...roommate looks just like Scarlet O’Hara, because unlike your no-talent ass-clown of a roommate I have a deeper connection. I was born on Thanksgiving. My mother’s belly button popped like a meat-timer and when she was sliced open like a plump turkey, I emerged, a most uncommon stuffing...
...time admiring machines. In 1918 or 1919 he made a short film of his future first wife Katharine, positioning her nude body in complicated ways for the camera. The film is lost, but Sheeler printed 10 frames separately as photographs. They are unforgettable. Folded into shelves of plump tissue, her limbs cutting across her torso like wide interstates, Katharine is a nude unlike any other in photography until Lee Friedlander's contorted women of the 1970s. It's not enough to say these pictures are experiments in form, though the ways in which Sheeler had in mind the broken crockery...
...secret is in the premium ingredients. The butter is Plugra, European-style with a high butterfat content and less moisture than standard supermarket fare, and flours come from Vermont and North Carolina. There are corn kernels in the Corn Bread, sprouted wheat berries in the Huron Loaf and plump golden raisins in the Raisin-Pecan Bread. And, as the bakers proudly tell me, everything is made by hand...
...sizes, but Mesmera makes everybody feel beautiful," says Monica, a high school teacher. Echoes Suzy Roan, 44, a divorced bartender who teaches belly dancing in a suburb of Anchorage: "It's one of the few dancing arts where it's totally acceptable to be yourself. If you're plump...