Word: companion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hart, Schaffner & Marx, with burnt orange by Arrow. Their jaws seemed firmer, teeth bigger and whiter, complexions clearer, shoulders wider, backs straighter than the Democrats', and they had handshakes likes vises. Wandering across the convention floor was like strolling down Main Street with some side excursions up its suburban companion, Elm Street. There was the clean fragrance of Mennen's Skin Bracer and the soft clucks of mothers with their glasses hanging from chains around their necks...
...yard-long telescope. "November" is a handsome, dark-haired thing reclining across a rumpled bed. The other months, too, are represented by models with well-turned thighs, flashing eyes, bare chests and other features familiar to devotees of calendar art. But this calendar, the Ladies Home Companion 1973, is really something else. All the nudes are male...
That task was not always easy. "Some of the guys were reluctant to pose," says Carol Fulton, 25, who took eight of the twelve Companion pictures. "They didn't know if it was going to be pornographic or something." To ease their fears Photographer Fulton showed them a mock-up of the calendar, which is printed in Victorian sepia tones and discreetly cloaks parts of the anatomy in shadows or hides them behind strategically placed hardware...
Despite all the things wrong with this Antony and Cleopatra it was worth doing--particularly as a companion piece to Julius Caesar and as a vehicle for Philip Kerr's Octavius, which we are not likely ever to see excelled...
According to Marshall Cohen, dean of Students in Summer School, the confusing wording resulted from an attempt to enforce a "minimum parietal." Cohen said that last Summer's dean of residence hoped to discourage cohabitation by prohibiting friends of the opposite sex from hanging around their companion's rooms when no one was at home...