Word: uplifts
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...SUPER-UPLIFT bra -- a high-tech, cleverly marketed 90's version of the old-fashioned push-up bra -- was introduced two months ago with a torrent of hype. Demand, however, has not been uniformly distributed...
Success 1994 is part revival meeting, The Music Man and medicine show and all uplift, with dialogue inspired by the Bible, Poor Richard's Almanac, Calvinism, common sense and Horatio Alger. The show has already been to Seattle, San Jose, Washington, San Francisco, Anaheim, San Diego, Phoenix, Houston and Columbia. Coming up: Cleveland, Youngstown, Akron, Richmond, Sarasota, Rochester, Chicago...
...road show sells inspirational uplift and keys to happiness...
...latest instruments of female torture are contraptions with names like Wonderbra and Super-Uplift that force a woman's breasts, however small, into a harness, creating cleavage of the sort enjoyed by Dolly Parton. The maker of Super-Uplift describes its product as a feat of engineering (constructed with 46 separate components and underwires, a "gate back" for anchoring, and ridged shoulder straps to prevent the "embarrassing jellies-on-a-plate look"), but it is actually a feat of marketing. Reconvincing women that the absence of breasts holds them back is as easy as forcing hemlines up or down...
...they did not turn to Jackson or Chavis or Mfume but to Farrakhan, the one black man they felt could fill any hall in town. Wherever he presents himself as "a voice for the voiceless," crowds throng to his orations, typically almost three hours long, for entertainment and moral uplift...