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...second play fares much better. After a minute break. Porter in white, black bra strap sliding down her arm, launches into a gutsy chat about her lost gloves, her almost lover, and her father's death. Here she has a character to play, and she plays it for all its worth. Her streetwise manner and stance never break as she cracks her jokes, and snares a light for her cigarette from a man in the audience, yet she is suddenly vulnerable remembering the pointlessness of her father's death. We can forgive her occasional stumbling, as she catches...
Most, of course, including strong-minded feminists, will agree that the first bunches of women, bra-less, in baggy pants and shirts, toting signs and pleading for sexual equality presented a somewhat unappealing image. But, consider that practically everyone back then, men too, was dressing in "proletarian garb." It just became fashionable to not wash your clothes, because who cared what we looked like? There was a cause to fight for. Women realized they no longer had to totter around in spike heels and in pants so tight they couldn't breathe--they realized they did not wish...
...district attorney's consumer-fraud/white-collar-crime unit listen to the complaints of passersby, then mediate with merchants, doctors and the Like. Most complaints concern car repairs; others range from false advertising to ill-fitting hairpieces. One woman complained of a backache that came from wearing a bra supposed to increase her bust size. No complaint is too small: the unit once got back a 200 soda-bottle deposit for a small boy from his neighborhood grocer...
...Army general said no. The Lord Mayor said yes. The $21,000 question: Was Interpreter Hannelore Nelson wearing a bra at the annual asparagus festival in Mainz, West Germany...
...Lord Mayor and the police chief came to court prepared to say that, as far as they could tell, she had been wearing a bra. Without settling whether a bra should be required, the court recommended that the Army pay $21,000 in retribution, unemployment benefits, court costs and taxes. The Army, in a tacit admission that the affair had grown out of proportion, accepted the settlement. "I don't know what the whole fuss is about," said Miss Nelson. "I never go without a brassiere. It's not my style...