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...jump through these hoops and become one of the 750,000 lucky owners of Sex. You have the spiral-bound tome in your hot little hands and you open the aluminum cover. What do you see? First, there's the safe sex disclaimer, where Madonna tells us that these delightful little tableaux represent her fantasies, which of course don't involve condoms. But if she were to ever act them out, protection is definitely on the agenda. She then introduces herself as Dita, your hostess and the hero(ine) of Sex. What follows is a written defense of pornography...
...conglomerate. He has the book, which longtime listeners will recognize as Rush's Greatest Hits. (He hits on liberalism, environmentalism, Hollywood, and for old time's sake he hits on Mikhail Gorbachev.) He has an audiocassette of the book -- the ideal way to get through the tome, since Rush not only abridges the text but provides comedy sound effects (dolphin noises, Meryl Streep impressions and a frog slurp). He has the Limbaugh Letter, a monthly compendium "dedicated to preserving my wisdom for the ages" and "printed on nonrecycled paper." He has T shirts, mugs, bumper stickers. In salesmanship...
...South Tyrol no later than Sept. 19, 1994 -- three years from the discovery date. In an act of goodwill, the Innsbruck team last month marked the first anniversary of the discovery with a motorcade that carried the first edition of Der Mann im Eis, a 464-page scientific tome, to Bolzano, South Tyrol's capital...
...dean said his letter outlining the currentbudget situation--a follow-up to last January's13-page tome--will not be ready until next month
...twice--politely--beforeaccepting. Since we were family, Aunt Bessieusually skipped the three offer pas-de-deux andproceeded to reload my plate upon my firstrefusal. These reinforcements often includedsurprises like potato salad, pound cake, homemadeice cream and sweet potato pie. Amazingly, I wasalways able to finish off whatever was given tome. I guess she had a way of being able to discernexactly when I was about to burst, a term I don'tuse lightly...