Word: bikini
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...foreigners resisted-not even the German woman who was told off by police for wearing toreador pants and bare midriff, nor the American girl in a bikini chased from the Fountain of Trevi. But Communist newspapers raised a hue and cry about "clerical intolerance," and some of Italy's leading non-Communist papers joined in. Said Turin's liberal La Stampa: "The truth is, not many Italians are horrified by the sight of a girl in shorts." Added the largest newspaper in Italy, Milan's conservative Corriere della Sera, "They are proposing tourism in long pants...
However, Giraudoux fails to maintain a balance between ideas and spicy French sex, and the play becomes bikini. Interspersed with rationalistic salvos are a crescendo of kisses, lovers entwined like vine leaves on a Greek frieze and racy gods until the romp is reduced to a gala Gallic gaiety and the comedy verges on hedonism. Frankly, three hours of the bed become boring...
...Gloucester, Mass, threw the beard, beret and bikini set of latter-day painters into a foot-stamping tizzy with a decision that no nudes will be shown in this week's Sixth Annual Arts Festival. Artists answered the challenge with a threat to stage an all-nude show at nearby Rock-port's Bearskin Neck, began peppering the local newspaper with impassioned protests ("As an artist I love what God created, and I never want to see pants on plants"). At week's end hard-pressed Festival Chairman Ken Gore announced that the ban was only against...
...natives, recalling the shower of radioactive ash that fell on Rongelap atoll in the Marshall Islands in March 1954. "It came down like rain, and it burned when it touched your skin." An unexpected shift of wind had carried the ash from H-bomb tests 150 miles away, off Bikini...
...ordered its ambassador in London to file an expression of "strong regret" with the British, not forgetting to mention that Tokyo reserved full right to claim damages for any Japanese fishermen who may have been near by. Actually, the British testing area is twice as far from Japan as Bikini, but this did not stop thousands of Japanese students from rioting outside the British embassy in Tokyo...