Word: strapped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Michael Douglas) who looks as if he will make a great golfer some day, keeps saying "I know, I know" and offering her Valium. He won't take his turn at cooking dinner either. Is he one of the nasties in the giblet-peddling ring? When the villains strap Bujold to the operating table for an appendectomy she needs like a hole in the abdomen, will she survive to put makeup on her scar? Finding out the answers is like having an inoculation: you get a little sick, but after that the odds are that you will have nothing...
...equally bitter ballad, "Bring Back the Chair," Paxton evinces his skill with irony. He mockingly suggests that America should revive executions to escape from complete boredom, chanting, "Bring back the chair, strap someone there, strap down a pair." Swept away by the morbid message, Paxton lapses into moments of poor enunciation and phrasing, but the song is funny enough to short out delivery problems. Again, the music provides a steady circuit for the electricity of Paxton's work...
...climb into a cockpit, strap in and start the car. You shift upward, first, second, third, fourth and then down. Gas. Clutch. Shift. Now gas, clutch, gas again. Downshift. You are learning how to double-clutch. You are learning to control a car. You cease to hear the swallows. Your universe becomes an asphalt strip. It will be afternoon before Couture regards you as competent to corner in a Formula Ford...
...every move, the untameable craziness that forces her to stop at nothing--stealing, biting and screaming--to get what she wants. She is the kind of woman who appears to need more than just a little calming; the kind we expect to see tamed when a man decides to strap her across his shoulders, slap her a few good ones on the old backside, and then carry her struggling and scratching all the way up to the bedroom...
...suits) are something else. Ashore, these clinging one-piece numbers are pinafore-demure. Wetted, they become second skins, as close to the body as sun tan oil. They are also practical. Halston says of his hot-pink strapless model on the next page: "It gives a perfect tan sans strap marks." Coty Award Winner Monika Tilley, a pioneer of the one-piece suit, has focused on thighs, figuring that bosoms have had their day in the sun, and it is high time owners and watchers of GG legs get a chance. Tilley's jade mini-maillot adorns Model Cheryl...