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...advantages to sexual frankness. With everyone coming in and out, losing and finding themselves, reinventing, returning and displacing, the giddy delights of independence can percolate everywhere. Yet something has been lost. Think of all those wonderful words which are endlessly suggestive to the repressed ear. Words such as viscous, fluid, ballast, balloon, column, effluence, and dampness hide beautiful messages behind their innocent facades. In a literal environment they are not longer potent. What a loss to the imagination if you can't chuckle over your bun, or prize the profundity of eructation...
About 1,300 km (800 miles) long, the San Andreas Fault system separates two sections of the earth's crust known as plates. Like giant rafts, these plates glide across an expanse of superheated rock, viscous as tar, that surrounds the planet's molten outer core. At the rate of nearly 5 cm (2 in.) a year, the Pacific plate to the west of the San Andreas is slowly pushing north, past the North American plate on the east. One possible result: 60 million or so years from now, a sliver of the California coast that includes the megalopolis...
...peela lotta potatoes -- about 6,000 tons a day. Traditional recipe: steam 900 lbs. of potatoes in a vast vat; release the steam so the skins drop off. Preparation time: two minutes. Drawbacks: you lose nearly a tenth of a tater with the skin and generate a dun-colored, viscous by-product, used as cattle feed...
...shift as a woman moves, and the water may settle into the lower portion of the breast, stretching and tightening the skin. They are not recommended for thin women or for those who have undergone mastectomy, since these women do not have enough extra padding to support the viscous envelope...
...anesthetized upon an operating table in the City of Hope National Medical Center in Duarte, Calif. A surgeon inserted a 1-in.-long needle into the baby's hip and slowly began to withdraw bone marrow. In 20 minutes they removed about a cup of the viscous red liquid -- the stuff of resurrection...