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  • New Jersey's liquor laws have had a dramatic impact on the state's restaurant industry over the years, keeping chain restaurants at bay in some areas and creating a hyperprotective class of license-holding restaurateurs.

    N.J. BYOB Gets Check Lisa Fleisher 2011

  • Sorry, Meghan, those of us who do not want to see a 12-year-old girl dressed in a wet T-shirt and panties... writhing on a bed and... awkwardly grinding in a hootchy-kootchy pantomime are not repressed and conflicted and hyperprotective.

    Archive 2007-01-01 Ann Althouse 2007

  • Once she has become part of the sexual economy of adolescence—about which Americans are so clearly conflicted, living as we do in a hypersexualized era that is also peculiarly hyperprotective of children—she can't go back.

    "Ms. Fanning’s commitment to this material is unwavering in its creepiness." Ann Althouse 2007

  • Sorry, Meghan, those of us who do not want to see a 12-year-old girl dressed in a wet T-shirt and panties... writhing on a bed and... awkwardly grinding in a hootchy-kootchy pantomime are not repressed and conflicted and hyperprotective.

    "Ms. Fanning’s commitment to this material is unwavering in its creepiness." Ann Althouse 2007

  • "Sorry, Meghan, those of us who do not want to see a 12-year-old girl dressed in a wet T-shirt and panties... writhing on a bed and... awkwardly grinding in a hootchy-kootchy pantomime are not repressed and conflicted and hyperprotective."

    "Ms. Fanning’s commitment to this material is unwavering in its creepiness." Ann Althouse 2007

  • Once she has become part of the sexual economy of adolescence—about which Americans are so clearly conflicted, living as we do in a hypersexualized era that is also peculiarly hyperprotective of children—she can't go back.

    Archive 2007-01-01 Ann Althouse 2007

  • Once she has become part of the sexual economy of adolescence—about which Americans are so clearly conflicted, living as we do in a hypersexualized era that is also peculiarly hyperprotective of children—she can't go back.

    "Ms. Fanning’s commitment to this material is unwavering in its creepiness." Ann Althouse 2007

  • He remained mostly mum about how his series will conclude, saying some "old, familiar characters" will return, but that the rest is a secret and "I'm being hyperprotective of it."

    The Seattle Times 2012

  • Yes, farmers and hunters can own guns here, and while Scots aren't as hyperprotective of their land as Americans, I am not happy about this situation.

    Gadling 2010

  • "those of us who do not want to see a 12-year-old girl ... writhing on a bed and... awkwardly grinding in a hootchy-kootchy pantomime are not repressed and conflicted and hyperprotective."

    "Ms. Fanning’s commitment to this material is unwavering in its creepiness." Ann Althouse 2007

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