Word: breastless
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...tacky “Bahamas” baseball cap and an athletic bandage wrapped tightly around my chest. The latter compresses my breasts into uncomfortable beef patties. When I remove the bandage three hours later, red lines outline my stomach and sternum. In profile, though, I look convincingly breastless...
...perverse, it escapes sexism. For example, one short consists of a long strip-tease worthy of New Orleans and Blaze Starr, but with a twist. Once the stripper is down to her G-string, she starts taking off her hair and limbs, until nothing is left but a breastless torso. Funny, maybe; sexist, definitely--which is to question why Off the Wall should have pretended otherwise...
Russian Roulette. When a woman enters the hospital for a biopsy, her surgeon usually asks her permission to perform a mastectomy if the biopsy should be positive. Thus most women go under anaesthesia without knowing whether they will wake up breastless or not. Surgeons defend this practice on the ground that it reduces both the risk and the expense of two operations. Even so, some women would rather know beforehand what they face, and some surgeons agree that there is no harm in waiting a few days between a biopsy and a mastectomy. "A cancer isn't going...
...find that his son and daughter have become neoprimitive natives of swinging England. His daughter (Margaret Linn) is complacently pregnant-by whom, she cannot be sure. His bearded guitar-laden son (Sam Waterston) looks "like a leftover from the Last Supper," and his so-called mistress is a breastless, hipless, bass-voiced androgyne. Ultimately, the general goes his filial foes one better at anarchic nonconformity by growing a beard himself, living in a tree and mastering the guitar. The quality of the humor is as strained as the plot. Ustinov seems to have aped Bernard Shaw without the wit, Neil...
...whereupon the screen flashes a title, silent-movie style: "Gee, I wish my fronts weren't so big. They sure ruin the line of your beads." It is the first of many slices of cutesie-pie proffered by Director George Roy Hill, including innumerable jokes about the restless, breastless flappers, and oh-you-kidding dialogue indicating that "by jingo" and "gotcha" are supposed to be terrif...