Word: bra
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Russian immigrants, Geffen showed no taste for academics. At New Utrecht High School, where his senior yearbook predicted he would be a dentist, Geffen finished in the bottom tenth of his class. But he was inspired by business, an interest nurtured partly by his mother's proprietorship of a bra-and-corset shop. After dropping out of two colleges, he padded his resume with a fake degree from UCLA and landed a job as a mail- room clerk at the William Morris talent agency. (He still faults the company for requiring that credential for a low-level job.) Moving...
...miniseries progressed, the focus swung away from politics to the steamy sex scandal of Crane's relationship with Fallon and their tendency towards kinky sexual behavior. Favorite Son provided one of the most explicit sex scenes I've ever seen on television. It features Koslowski, clad in push-up bra and garter belt, perched on the bed as she tries to seduce the FBI agent investigating the case. She produces two ribbons from her bureau and ties them around her wrist, then raises her hand to the bedpost moaning, "Tie me up." Bad politics, it seems, has concomitant vices...
Though the intervening millenia have changed mankind in many ways--through the invention of monotheism, the printing press and the bra, for example--none of these changes can match the revolutions wrought by America on the institutions of sport and democracy, not only as an innovator, but as a disseminator. No country can claim to be the birthplace of so many world-popular sports; football, baseball and basketball are just a few that enjoy popularity in at least one foreign country (if one counts Canada as a foreign country). Nor can any nation country claim to have forcibly installed democracy...
...being cast in Garp. One day she shocked the cast and crew after the production bogged down over a delicate nude scene in the boys' locker room. She suddenly stripped off her character's nurse uniform and streaked the cast and crew in an armor-like girdle and longline bra. "Everyone's jaw just dropped," says Hurt. "It was totally unexpected...
...first two ads are unlikely to cause much fuss. As two women run for a train and another heads for a fancy dinner, the camera reveals each in her bra for a few seconds. Even so, NBC will only run the spots when children are in school. What next? Advertisers of men's underwear are already seeking the right to follow suit...