There is, in fact, an amazing variety in the carvings of female torsos, including several 20, 000-year-old ones from the caves of Balzi Rossi, a site on the Mediterranean coast near Monaco, all emphasizing sexual features, but in different ways.

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Thursday Night Football and Sunday Night Football see more social conversation when a game features a team from the east coast, and less when a team is from the west coast.

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Cider and green hillscapes, for example, are features of the camino del norte along the verdant northern coast, as are handsome beaches whose bracing waters are sweet relief between hill trudges.

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The director, whose previous work had included gritty features including Taxi Driver and Raging Bull, said that his east coast pedigree had made it tough to impress the Academy.

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