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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...show that standards in the proper wearing of the National Park Service uniform seem to have dropped. In reality, they have not. Name tag and badge should be worn on the outside of a Park Service jacket. The tie tack should be located midway between the buttons of the breast pocket. In addition, moccasins are not considered proper footwear. It is no wonder that grizzlies in Yellowstone thought their eyes were deceiving them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 15, 1974 | 7/15/1974 | See Source »

...ancient Indian loincloth and consists of two minuscule triangles of cloth joined by a cord over either hip. The Tanga is a huge hit with Rio girl watchers because it bares a large part of the derriere-Brazilian males tend to be nádega (buttock) rather than peito (breast) admirers. The String spread to Italy a while ago, and now it is having its first tanga north of the border...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: The String Look | 7/1/1974 | See Source »

Come on, America! Why this constant introverted breast-beating about a national peccadillo? I suppose that it is your Puritan upbringing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 17, 1974 | 6/17/1974 | See Source »

...given' in De Kooning's art, allowing the artist to proceed immediately to the essential business of making a picture." The Women series, as the drawing made circa 1952 immediately makes clear, contained that private neurological signature known as style: the capacious, whipping curves of breast and thigh, the brisk L of the arm responding to the angles of the chair legs, the shallow, vigorous flurry of space and line around the vestiges of a head. With De Kooning, the energy and propulsion of the line tend to abolish the usual distinctions between painting and drawing; line turns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Painter as Draftsman | 6/17/1974 | See Source »

Beyond such essentially show business concerns, Caldwell was operating on the premise that beneath the breast of the war horse beats the heart of a thoroughbred. The Barber ranks as a 19th century buffa masterpiece because its music is so innately ingratiating and so illustrative of both character and comic situation. Figaro's patter aria Largo al factotum ("Feeegaro! Feeegaro!") quickly defines him as one of the most likable hustlers in all opera. Rosina's Una voce poco fa is a song of such poise and bravura style as to remove all doubt that she will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Barber of Boston | 6/17/1974 | See Source »

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