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...long-haired, bearded man in his middle 20s walks into the restaurant, accompanied by a woman of about the same age who is dressed in frayed blue jeans and a loose blouse. It is painfully obvious to the diners who have observed their entrance that she is wearing no bra, and the man with the blueberry cream follows the couple closely, rotating slowly on his swivel chair at the counter, until they have seated themselves in one corner of the restaurant. A waitress shakes her head and clicks her tongue. "Will you look at that," she chides, and retires into...

Author: By Daniel H. Maccoby, | Title: Walking Through Maine With 'Down-to-Earth' Bill | 10/10/1973 | See Source »

...fighter who takes on city hall, featherbedding repairmen and department-store complaint departments. She can deck an adversary with an arch of a single brow as surely as with an adder-tongued retort like last week's explanation of a black eye: "I was jumping rope-without a bra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Big Bea | 10/1/1973 | See Source »

...with my hating sexual objecthood--that all the male attention was too big a cross to bear, that it made me feel like an animal on the defensive, all the time. And suddenly she wheeled around with a screaming red-blotched face, ripping herself out of bathrobe and bra until she was white and naked before me. She pointed hysterically to her stomach and she was shrieking "Shut up! Shut up, will you? I've got hairs on my stomach! Look at them! Can't you see them? They're hairs there! Spiky black hairs. They're ugly. They...

Author: By Emily Fisher, | Title: Goodbye to All That, and Good Riddance | 9/1/1973 | See Source »

...pages of devastatingly accurate satire of Nixonian newspeak, quickly slid into labored collegiate humor. Grossly padded-including too many blank end papers and repetitive title pages-the book became a $5.95 hardback steppingstone to a profitable publishing venture. Ditto The Breast, whose 78 pages scarcely filled a training bra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Name of the Game | 5/7/1973 | See Source »

...superbly sensuous "My Love's Gonna Take You Higher," Bette characteristically stripped the fushia, sequined mermain gown she had put on at intermission. She continued to perform--through her final rendition of "Friends," her incomparable "Chapel of Love" and a standing ovation--in her black lace strapless long-line bra and accompanying black satin skin-tight knee-length bloomers...

Author: By Peter A. Landry, | Title: The Divine One | 2/27/1973 | See Source »

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