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...assassination. Another execrated royal personage is the 8th century Emperor Hsüan Tsung, who was hopelessly enamored of a shapely concubine, Yang Kuei-fei. With characteristic Chinese panache, he built a summer palace for her with 16 bathing pools, where the lady was wont to wash her statuesque limbs under the Emperor's besotted gaze...
...minded feminists, will agree that the first bunches of women, bra-less, in baggy pants and shirts, toting signs and pleading for sexual equality presented a somewhat unappealing image. But, consider that practically everyone back then, men too, was dressing in "proletarian garb." It just became fashionable to not wash your clothes, because who cared what we looked like? There was a cause to fight for. Women realized they no longer had to totter around in spike heels and in pants so tight they couldn't breathe--they realized they did not wish to be "desired" by men as sexually...
...Marian N. Shultz Greenbank, Wash...
Mary J. Koch Auburn, Wash...
When you are a guest on a yacht, Tish advises, use the shower very sparingly; wait until you are on shore to wash your hair. Always bring a decent can of balls, she reminds tennis players. Tish does not deal, however, with the vexing question of whether a man should deliberately ease up on his velocity when serving to a woman. Is it condescending...