Word: corseted
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Having spent an hour a day for the past five years at her voice training, Jenny is perfectly willing to move on slowly. Her biggest problem now is to find music to display her voice in public, for most composers have long helped to keep the corset strings tight by writing music to fit the man-imposed limitation on man's voice. Mozart composed killing coloratura arias for his high-singing sisters-in-law, Josepha and Aloysia Weber; Giuseppe Colla supplied music for his wife-to-be, Agujari; Moises Vivanco supplies it .for his wife Yma Sumac. Jennifer Johnson...
...riddle and ceases to be any work of art at all ... What the new Academy of the Left has yet to realize is that in their fanatic zeal they have not achieved freedom of movement for the modern artist. They have merely substituted the rubber girdle for the whalebone corset...
Burt Lancaster, however, makes a brave try at a part somewhat beyond the means of his talent, and manages at least to convince the spectator that half an oaf is better than none. As for Anna, nothing like her kind of corset farce has come out of Hollywood since the late Marie Dressier delicately tucked a pint of hooch in her grandmotherly bosom. One moment Actress Magnani comes lurching on-camera as shapeless as a burlap bag full of cantaloupes; the next she is sleazing through the dusk in black lace with the toothsome glitter of a backstreet-walker...
...inches of leg, although covered by gaiters, was advocated by Helen Gilbert Ecob in 1893. Her book, The Well Dressed Woman, proposed "the emancipation of the body": from top to bottom, the removal of veils and a few inches of skirt, and in the middle the abandoning of the corset. The most serious hazard to health and freedom of the body was the corset which averaged seventy-five pounds of restrainment. "How shall women breathe?" she asks...
...Wolfe and practically everyone else. Of modern Western women he said: "I should like to call them buxom, deep-breasted, strong-thewed, fit to be mates and mothers of big men. Mathematics forbids; too high a percentage of them are just fat. They must be the bulwark of the corset industry...