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Word: cladding (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...second chase takes place along assorted rooftops and streets in midtown Manhattan. It features the spectacle of a bad guy (Tony King) bounding across the hoods of traffic-stalled taxicabs clad only in his trim-line boxer shorts. Even in New York City, this creates something of a stir, especially since the bad guy, who is black, is being pursued by a white good guy (Michael Moriarty), and both of them are armed. Hunter and hunted end up holding each other at bay in an elevator at Saks Fifth Avenue that has stopped between floors. While the cops surround...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Police Brutality | 2/24/1975 | See Source »

McNally's towel-clad "Kartoon Komics" frequent the Ritz Baths, a gay rendezvous complete with steam bath, tiny cubicles for man-to-man trysts and a third-rate entertainer, Googie Gomez, a thrush with a condor's appetite for stardom. As the chanteuse, Rita Moreno is a comic earthquake ranking ten on the Richter scale, though her Puerto Rican accent renders some of her lines unintelligible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Imps of the Perverse | 2/3/1975 | See Source »

...numbers are coming!" Bikini-clad women from a model agency have braved December blasts to stand coyly beside easels proclaiming the lucky digits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Pie in the Sky | 12/16/1974 | See Source »

PRESERVATION WAS introduced in a cinematographic style which included a recording of a kind of lyrical overture accompanied by slides projected on a large screen to announce the oratorio title and introduce the protagonists. The performance proper commenced with a mixed choir clad in garments befitting Gregorian monks. Appropriately enough, the introductory segment was a melodious theme calling to mind twelfth century plainchant. The show proceeded faultlessly without elaborate ornamentation or stage settings, which was just as well, since it allowed the audience to concentrate on the musical side of the production...

Author: By John Porter, | Title: Korruption in Kinkdom | 12/5/1974 | See Source »

According to friends, Fanne formerly performed at the Silver Slipper, a sleazy Washington nightclub shoehorned between a pornographic bookstore and a pornographic theater. On the club's window are photos of scantily clad women in provocative poses and a sign promising AN EXTRAVAGANZA OF BEAUTIFUL, CURVACEOUS GIRLS. Inside, dancers shake to the heavy beat of music thundering from amplifiers and strip to their G strings, as B-girls cadge $2.75 drinks from male customers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Wilbur's Argentine Firecracker | 10/21/1974 | See Source »

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