Word: dressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...derisive counterattack on what deviates call the "straight" world. This is evident in "pop," which insists on reducing art to the trivial, and in the "camp" movement, which pretends that the ugly and banal are fun. It is evident among writers, who used to disguise homosexual stories in heterosexual dress but now delight in explicit descriptions of male intercourse and orgiastic nightmares. It is evident in the theater, with many a play dedicated to the degradation of women and the derision of normal sex. The most sophisticated theatrical joke is now built around a homosexual situation; shock comes not from...
That was the tone of the first few minutes of President Lyndon Johnson's first full-dress press conference since August. There was no question about who was in command. Crisp, clipped, perfectly assured, L.B.J. took the offensive. There might not have been a conference at all if Press Secretary Bill Moyers had not gone on television a few days before to denounce such affairs as "circuses" and "extravaganzas." They are "a poor substitute," Moyers said, for the more informal get-togethers that the President prefers. And anyway, he added, the President has no statutory obligation to hold...
Everyone agrees that statutory-rape laws are soundly aimed at protecting immature girls from seduction, says Myers. Indeed, modern permissiveness in feminine speech, dress and deportment may well make such laws all the more important. But what if the girl is experienced or deliberately lies about her age? Along with having no defense, argues Myers, a man confronts "unrealistically high" ages of consent in most states. Delaware, to be sure, sets the age at seven, but in most other states it ranges from 16 to 18-and up to 21 in Tennessee. For statutory rape...
Herald writer Joan Hawkes found that "it's in to dress prettily on Wednesday night when favorite faculty members are invited to dinner." "Radcliffe girls are NOT grubby," the article began. Perhaps the lady doth protest too much...
...dramatic recital of the closing lines from Camelot ("Don't let it be forgot"). Then he brought on his wife, offering the viewing public more square inches of Elizabeth Taylor than have ever been seen before onscreen. Displaying a ballooning figure that erupted from a low-cut red dress, Liz appeared somewhat disarrayed, as if she had just left a hot, messy kitchen to answer the front door. Burton disclosed that his wife had been invited by Oxford University to play Helen of Troy, "if," giggled Liz, "I lose 20 pounds." Sammy laughed, perhaps too uproariously. Whereupon the Burtons...