Word: cloth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...puritanical military regime had prosecuted a girl from Ipanema who went topless, and then permanently prohibited mammary nudity. Undaunted, the girls of Rio invented the String-known in Brazil as the Tonga-which is derived from an 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...
That so peaceful a union should suddenly turn militant underscores the ominous strains that inflation is setting up in labor-management relations after a long period of worker docility. The strikers, who include cloth cutters, buttonhole makers, sewing-machine operators, pattern makers and tailors, now earn an average of $3.60 an hour, or roughly $135 a week. They are demanding an increase of $1.10 an hour, or a startling 30%, over three years-50? the first year, and 30? for each of the next two. On top of that, the Amalgamated demands an escalator clause that would raise wages further...
...behest of two lovelorn sons with two miserly fathers, Scapino engineers an endless repertory of deceptions with a blazing battery of slapstick. Whether mimicking the two dunderheaded old fossils, or mulcting them, or pretend-hiding them in sacks and flailing the daylights out of them with a cloth truncheon shaped like an oversize bologna, there is no stopping Scapino. Eventually caught out by the two old fogies, the superscamp gains their pardon, and hoodwinks the pair again, by pretending to breathe his last. At the end of the mazelike plot, everyone is wreathed in smiles, especially the audience...
Still, the fans at the Lobsters' home matches have been staid. The crowds have averaged a little over 2000 at the modern, carpeted B.U. hockey arena. The dixieland band plays only during warmups and between games, never between points. The Lobsters' mascot, a six-foot-tall bright orange cloth lobster with a tennis raquet in one claw, flaps his claws together decorously after good points, then folds them back...
...What kind of cloth coat did Nixon claim Pat owned...