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...Touch. Got a firm bod? A squishy one? A squishy one that used to be firm? Does it hurt when you press anywhere? What parts of you jiggle? Where are your muscles clearly defined, where do your bones jut out? Is your skin rough, smooth, oily? Your hair wiry, downy, springy? Does your nose have a lump on it, what does your nose feel like to you? Mine feels like a piece of driftwood, hard but sanded smooth...
...Darlene has a lot of natural sprinting speed compared to other long-distance runners. She has a smooth and efficient style which is the equivalent in human terms to maximizing miles per gallon," Babington says...
...head. He thought I didn't understand and he wanted to teach me. He pointed out that most of the people at the bar were queens or prostitutes. So I looked at all those elegant women with dresses slit high up the slim leg and cut low down the smooth chest, and asked whether our barmaid Mickie...
...father, walking in Manhattan, spots David across the street and rushes after him in a rage; he is crushed to death in the traffic. Among other things, the book could be read as a grand parody of the idea that the course of true love never runs smooth. At last, David ends in jail, for breaking parole, if not for shattering all the lives around him. Jade vanishes into the oblivion of an unknowable domestic life with another man, a subsiding into reality that is as poignant as the marriage of Dolores Haze at the end of an earlier novel...
With his extra measure of Ponselle's "certain something," Pavarotti occupies a unique position among the tenors of today. Placido Domingo, 38, his nearest rival, has a superbly smooth, rich voice and a wider range of roles?he sings the weighty Othello as well as bel canto parts?but he sometimes loses impact because of a veiled timbre and somewhat muted personality. Jon Vickers, 52, can match Pavarotti's intensity and puts more serious thought behind his performing, but his is an entirely different kind of voice: rugged, heroic, best suited to dramatic works such as Otello, Les Troyens...