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Word: bikini (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...after the freeways and frisbees went back into the minds of the Dunsterites, the urge to don the string bikini was just too great to stay repressed and it bubbled back to the surface, and so two weeks later Hawaiian Night was born. This time around it was Mauai and Mauna Kea over Monterrey, and pineapple juice instead of orange drink. And the sweet strains of "Hawaiian Love Song" drowned out the bleating screams of "Help Me, Rhonda...

Author: By Michael E. Silver, | Title: Dunster Goes West, Young Man | 12/7/1978 | See Source »

...here in the heart of the Transvaal. And it has no qualms about legislating morality: there seems to be a need to prove that whites are morally superior, to justify their legal and economic control of the country. No drinking or soccer on Sundays; no pornography (though pictures of bikini-clad women are splashed everywhere in this incredibly macho society); and, of course, no interracial sex. Nothing that would let the whites' moral fiber decline--that is, nothing that would prove too conclusively that whites and blacks are equally human. They are, of course, and the result is a kind...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Life in South Africa: An Outsider Goes Inside | 11/18/1978 | See Source »

Mayron as Susan, on the other hand, simply charms the camera. She may not look as good as Jill Clayburgh in bikini panties and t-shirt, but she is by far the superior comic actress. Who else could convincingly pull off a brief affair with a 50-year-old rabbi? She's not only good with a funny line; she uses her extraordinarily expressive face and body, too, captivating Rabbi Gold (Eli Wallach), and the audience as well...

Author: By Katherine P. States, | Title: Passing Acquaintances | 9/28/1978 | See Source »

California Girls (NBC). A bikini-clad comedy about two 18-year-old girls who want to be lifeguards. One, sarcastic with a good body; the other, a free spirit, well tanned and not unattractive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: And in the Can... | 5/15/1978 | See Source »

...photographer and lithographer known for his cool, clean-cut geometrical depictions of the bridges, elevated trains and airplanes that fascinated him in the 1930s; of can cer; in Houston, where he was arranging for an exhibition of his work. Sent by FORTUNE magazine to paint the atomic explosion at Bikini in 1946, Crawford was aghast at its blinding light and all-encompassing destruction. As a result, he developed new expressive qualities that continued to be seen in some of his later works. New Orleans, where he often painted and photographed jazz musicians, was a favorite haunt, and it was there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 15, 1978 | 5/15/1978 | See Source »

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