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Word: brassi (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mother, may I suggest that it is not "the parents who are targets of the Beatles' satirical gibes" but rather the soppy cult of pseudo-sacrifice wherein Aunt Bessie of the Missionary Society tells everyone about the hair shirt she has to wear because she donated all her brassières to the Uncivilized Savages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 6, 1967 | 10/6/1967 | See Source »

...Director John J. Akar. He did his best with scarves and plastic roses, but the scarves fell and the petals peeled. At week's end, Akar was ready to try adhesive disks, but Menotti made his stand: "The Vatican may have fig-leafed Michelangelo, but I refuse to brassière Africa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 8, 1966 | 7/8/1966 | See Source »

...comedienne, retains her dignity through several assaults of whimsy that would shake a saint. In one dreary episode, she is conned into buying scanty costumes for the school band. In another, she sends a shy little nun off to help a pack of screaming girls shop for their first brassières. Director Ida Lupino lets Angels swing lowest when she introduces a lay teacher, clad in passionate purple, whose specialty is "interpretive movement." Gypsy Rose Lee plays the part with all the boop-de-doo phoniness a second-rate show deserves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Nuns Dimittis | 4/8/1966 | See Source »

...fantastic. As it was told, prostitutes had been provided for a panel of federal jurors trying a major case-and paid for by U.S. marshals. The judge had threatened to "get" the defendant. A U.S. marshal pranced about a hotel dressed in nothing but a woman's brassière and panties. It was fantastic, that is, until one knew the author of the plot, who is a pretty fantastic fellow himself: Teamster Boss James Riddle Hoffa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Hoffa's Hookers | 10/1/1965 | See Source »

...BANG! BRA-BANG! goes Ursula Andress, 29. And in about as fast a transition as anyone's emotions are ever likely to undergo, the hapless fellow is dead-gunned down by the twin pistols hidden in the girl's brassière. Playing a Jane Bond out to earn her diploma in legal killing from the Central World Government circa 2000 A.D., Ursula straps on the sexshooter and goes hunting for Marcello Mastroianni, 40, in a homicidal fantasy called The Tenth Victim, now being filmed in Rome. Studio technicians ad mit they're still trying to figure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 2, 1965 | 7/2/1965 | See Source »

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