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  • It was Aunty Uju who brought her James Hadley Chase novels wrapped in newspaper to hide the near-naked women on the cover, who hot-stretched her hair when she got lice from the neighbours downstairs, who talked her through her first menstrual period, supplementing her mother's lecture that was full of Biblical quotes about a woman's virtue but lacked useful details about cramps and pads.

    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | Miracle 2011

  • A Crystal fave: The best-picture montage with the comic inserted into scenes in various guises, including Aragorn, Legolas and a near-naked

    Oscar showtime: This year vs. others 2009

  • New airport security scanners designed to be less intrusive than machines that captured near-naked images will debut at the Las Vegas airport Tuesday.

    TSA debuts new full-body scanners Ashley Halsey III 2011

  • SANTIAGO (Reuters) – A prominent fashion designer has sparked outrage in Chile by dressing up models like the Virgin Mary — in some cases with ample, near-naked breasts.

    RNB Roundup: a compendium of religion news stories 2009

  • Our photographer soon spots a spectacular photomontage in his living room depicting a sky filled with a white horse, a blonde woman and two dozen muscular, near-naked men.

    The Saturday interview: Brian Paddick 2011

  • "I felt something slightly different when the near-naked, 300 pound guy with a mohawk and fangs grabbed my ass on the elevator."

    Dragon*Con 2009 Lou Anders 2009

  • I felt something slightly different when the near-naked, 300 pound guy with a mohawk and fangs grabbed my ass on the elevator.

    Dragon*Con 2009 Lou Anders 2009

  • The publicity shots show a bunch of built guys and near-naked, hardbody babes horsing around in an extreme weather situation (or it might be the showers) and the blurb promises a work inspired by storms and "the whirling, unpredictable, threatening and thrilling forces of nature that overwhelm us".

    Stephen Petronio Company; Onegin – review Luke Jennings 2010

  • I felt something slightly different when the near-naked, 300 pound guy with a mohawk and fangs grabbed my ass on the elevator.

    Archive 2009-09-01 Lou Anders 2009

  • The sinister side of dress code authoritarianism lies in Europe's burqa-banning movement, so intolerant on a continent that, until recently, required women to wear hats in public and cover up bare skin – as many Italian churches still do, even when citizens can parade near-naked on the beach down the road.

    Miniskirt ban: a small, incompetent step backwards Michael White 2010

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