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...naughty supposition is that in some unspecified way, women have taken over power in the U.S., accomplishing a wholesale reversal of sex roles. Women wear trousers, smoke pipes and talk tough; men wear bras (after silicone injections), makeup and pantyhose and mince about in a way that is usually thought of as faggish. Women are executives, men are secretaries. Babies are hatched in laboratories; the standard sex act does not bear repeating. But men who cannot achieve ecstasy in this way are lectured gravely by female psychiatrists...
Many Czechs, for example, seldom take a holiday elsewhere in Eastern Europe without first stocking up on home-produced articles: textiles, sunglasses and playing cards for Rumania; shirts, shoes, socks and blue jeans for the Soviet Union; fruits for East Germany; bras, corsets and panty hose for Hungary; shoes, textiles and auto parts for Bulgaria. The enterprising Czech visitor either sells the articles for local currency or barters them for liquor in Rumania, coffee, vodka, car parts and a portable color-TV set in the Soviet Union, salami in Hungary, and curtain material in East Germany-all of which...
...Stuffing Bras. If all this amounts to a trend, then its culmination so far is off-Broadway's Grease, billed as "A New '50s Rock 'n' Roll Musical." Grease's book is a silly boy-girl story, and its music and lyrics are a pastiche of early '50s rock, rarely approaching the authentic inanity of the originals. But it is exquisite and excruciating in its details, from the boys' ducktail haircuts, leather jackets and cool, hang-loose slouches to the girls' cinch belts, nylon blouses, ballet slippers with white socks, pedal pushers...
...Eden Theater look like graduates of Rydell High School, class of 1959, where Grease is set, and they all wallow in the golden-oldies atmosphere. Laughter cascades over the footlights with every reference to "making out," exchanging school rings, going to proms in strapless dresses, stuffing Kleenex into bras and using fake ID cards to get into bars. But behind the laughter is bemusement. "They can identify with it all," says Casey, but he adds, "They are astonished that this is the past already...
...commercial for Playtex Living Bras opens with the announcement: "And now-introducing a new way of living in comfort." It certainly is. Striding on to the home screen is a fully clothed model, smiling serenely-and wearing her bra over her dress. An ad for Maidenform uses boards painted with a series of life-size figures; the figures have bras-but no heads. A live model pops from figure to figure while making the sales appeal. Her pitch: "Maidenform's Rated X bra makes you look beautiful...