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...nation's past. As the reproduction notices suggest, travel along the mountain route was highly regulated and checkpoints dotted the road. Only feudal lords and their aristocratic assistants, the samurai, could use it. Women were forbidden to journey independently, and travelers who looked even slightly androgynous had to unbutton sometimes for inspection. Travelers were also required to stamp on a Christian cross. Hesitation meant instant decapitation...
...Yale Review and author of the libretto for Emmeline, a new opera by Tobias Picker that opens next week at Lincoln Center), recounts a disturbing examination for cancer of the male breast: "Mammography's on the basement floor./ The nurse has an executioner's gentle eyes./ I start to unbutton my shirt. She shuts the door." The diagnosis: no malignancy, but an identity-warping excess of the female hormone estrogen. "The end of life as I've known it, that is to say--/ Testosterone sported like a power...
That may be an "elegant, wearable" suit Claudia Schiffer is wearing on your cover, but it's still the old, sexually titillating, tumbling blond locks and hand-poised-to-unbutton, sex-kitten look. Our society overemphasizes sex as a value...
...that Rose Marie brought an unaffected vitality to the clan. She makes babies as easily as some people make friends; she revels in runny noses and dropped socks. Mothering is her natural passion. At 40 she nurses her new infant as the other children look on: "They watched her unbutton the nightgown and feel inside for the bosom. After fixing it to the baby mouth, and satisfied with it, she looked up. Caitlin and Sophie saw it --that wild look--only this time there was something added. It was aimed at them and it said: There is nothing...
...Sophia Loren devoted their lives--and their bodies--to art. The pivotal event of Li Na's life occurred when her date tricked her into watching a porn movie. "She was shocked by the movements on the screen, and she felt warm and suffocated. As she was about to unbutton her collar to breathe a little, a hand grasped...