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The Women’s Plus Size Clothing Revolution ... Once upon a time, not too long ago, if you were a woman who wore clothes over a size 14 your clothing choices were limited to cheap looking, baggy and unattractive clothes that made you look old before your time... Now days, it’s easy to find trendy plus size clothes such as: dresses, workout clothes, evening wear and swimwear....

Underwire, Pushups And More- What's A Bra To Do? ... Women need to wear bras, as the breasts, being made of mostly adipose tissue, need support so they won't sag over time. It is the Cooper's ligaments in the breasts that hold up the tissues and support their shape as well as the skin that protects them from outside injuries...

O hideous little bat, the size of snot,
With polyhedral eye and shabby clothes,
—Karl Shapiro (b. 1913)

Television was far more pervasive and radicalizing than printing had been. It was massive. When Riesman and others spoke of books, magazines, and radio as mass media, they could not imagine the size and shape of television. There never had been a medium that could reach everybody, and reach them with images of behavior as behavior without the rationalization of words. The audience for its programs was drawn from every social class and every social element. By the mere act of watching television, a heterogeneous society could engage in a purely homogeneous activity. Television images are more rapid and transient than the printed word. They make no demand on us to remember or reflect on them. This impermanence and the time of consumption cause us to spend extended hours with the medium but significantly less time with any one image or sequence of images. Television is instantaneous and simultaneous: Everyone gets the message at the same time and, at the same time that an event is happening. There is no lag time between a reporter witnessing an event and reporting it, and no time for reflection and analysis.
—William J. Donnelly, U.S. media critic. “The People Connection,” The Confetti Generation, Henry Holt (1986)

‘What is truth?’ said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. Pilate was in advance of his time. For ‘truth’ itself is an abstract noun, a camel, that is, of a logical construction, which cannot get past the eye even of a grammarian. We approach it cap and categories in hand: we ask ourselves whether Truth is a substance ... or a quality ... or a relation.... But philosophers should take something more nearly their own size to strain at. What needs discussing rather is the use, or certain uses, of the word ‘true.’ In vino, possibly, ‘veritas,’ but in a sober symposium ‘verum.’
—J.L. (John Langshaw)