Word: cosmos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sparky's big job is to promote the Miss Nude Cosmos Pageant, a nude beauty contest held at Oakdale each summer. His first change has been to bill the pageant "The Woodstock of the Nudist Movement." He explains: "We've got to get the longhairs in here. Only way to save the place. And why not? They took their clothes off at Woodstock. Why can't they do it here...
...life, but never really bringing life to birth on the stage. They all write rather like Madison Avenue dropouts, reaching for the zingy zany line that will somehow sell their intrinsically pessimistic little packages. They are all loaded with urban chic. For these cosmic jokers, Manhattan is the cosmos...
...reporting on the march on the Pentagon, Mailer was dealing with an event which simply did not measure up to his conceptions of it. There was a tendency to play every scene, however small, as an historical watershed, surrounding it with apocalyptic fires and spinning it off into the cosmos. In his new book on the Apollo 11 moonshot, Of a Fire on the Moon, ego and history meet at half way, and it has taken a subject of no mean importance, the highest conscious design of the archimperium of the planet as well as a deliberate scaling down...
...from the resurgence. "Tattoos are merely another physical form of expression," he explains. "A way to say something intimately with your body." In the past year Tuttle has tattooed members of more than a dozen Northern California communes. "One group was really weird," he says. It "grooved on the cosmos−each one was tattooed with specified planets, and together they made up a kind of an astronomical map." Tuttle's most celebrated client was Blues Singer Janis Joplin, who sported a Florentine wristlet tattoo and had a small heart tattooed on her left breast. Since her death last...
...poet Rabindranath Tagore suggested that the East produced a "whole man," the West only an "economic man." Indeed, despite missionaries' ability to find cultural accommodation with the East, Catholicism would still have faced stiff resistance. At root, Asian religion sees the individual as an inconsequential part of the cosmos, while Christianity emphasizes the uniqueness of the individual-a basic difference not easily overcome...