Word: caresse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jimi Hendrix delivered right onstage. His hair frizzled as though by electricity, his scarves and sashes bobbing over sequined vests and velvet jackets in foppish disarray, he looked like a tripped-out savage impersonating a Carnaby Street dandy. His guitar was a throbbing phallic extension that he would caress, thrust at the audience, then set on fire at evening's end. The music was raw blues blasted out at maximum volume. Bursting on the rock scene in 1967 at the height of the acid-rock movement, Hendrix was a sensation: the first black superstar of mainstream rock. Three years...
...Laurent's Naive Chemise features more elegant tailoring, arm-length sleeves with tightly buttoned cuffs, high necklines and low, mid-calf hems. "For me, the chemise is an expression of freedom," said Libertarian Yves. "I wanted to make the fabric float over and just caress the body in a sensual way." The pathfinder who helped lead women to long pants some six years ago offered some manly trouser suits for evening wear, but it was clear that in Paris at least, pants were approaching the passe. Reported Women's Wear Daily: "Yves St. Laurent's Naive Chemise...
...Renoir's technique and sense of construction were superb: witness the sober, Venetian expansiveness of his great tribute to Corot, Pont-des-Arts, circa 1868. Or the vigorous, limpid Still Life with Bouquet, 1871 , whose tones of gold, amber and black sum up his affinities with Impressionism - light caress ing every surface, revealing each nu ance of substance from the crackly parchment of the Japanese fan to the humid softness of the bouquet...
...prime example of a pacific people, Alland cites the Semai of Malaya. A band of 12,000 farmers, the Semai adopt and name animals, talk to and caress them as if they were children, and even suckle them. Youngsters are never physically punished; they rarely see any form of violence, and so have no model of aggressive behavior to imitate. One result is that murder is unknown among the Semai. When angry, they generally confine themselves to voicing insults and spreading malicious rumors. True, they sometimes throw their own belongings around, but they are careful not to hurt anyone. Even...
Isotoner advertising carefully skirts the issue of weight reduction, claiming only to make wearers look and feel thinner. The nylon spandex suit is in effect a top-to-toe lightweight girdle that feels, one wearer told San Francisco's I. Magnin & Co., "better than a lover's caress...