Word: ecdysiast
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...Block's most ardent champion is its reigning queen, Stripper Blaze (40-24-38) Starr. At 34, Blaze is still the liveliest ecdysiast on the Block and heads the bill at her own nightspot, the Two O'Clock Club, whose value she estimates at $500,000. "You have to change with the times," Blaze says. "I'm not against urban renewal, but Baltimore needs a place for conventioneers and tourists." Often half her audience is composed of women friends who work with her on various Baltimore charities. Blaze is respectable and respected, but she is sadly aware...
...beat movies by Director Jean-Luc Godard (Breathless), whose joy in his work has never been more apparent. In this fresh and giddy free-form improvisation, Godard weaves all the bright idiocy of a Hollywood musical into some very je m'en fiche French rounds involving an ecdysiast (Anna Karina) who sheds her last flimsy inhibition and decides to have a baby with her lover, or-if it happens to work out that way-with her lover's best friend (Jean-Paul Belmondo...
...prosaic moniker alongside such inspired noms de dishabille as Gaza Stripp, Helen Bedd, and the ecclesiastical ecdysiast. Norma Vincent Peel...
...Virgin Mary. The use of prayer beads recedes into the earliest years of Christianity. In the 4th century, Paul the Hermit tallied his 300 prayers a day by collecting 300 pebbles and discarding them one at a time. In the 11th century, Countess Godiva of Coventry, the celebrated ecdysiast, bequeathed to a certain statue of the Virgin Mary "the circlet of precious stones which she had threaded on a cord in order that by fingering them one after another she might count her prayers exactly." In the 12th century, the prayer now known as the Hail Mary* came into general...
...puzzler if the answer was not blazoned on the marquee. The answer: Ethel Merman. They all love Ethel, but the love is sorely tested in her latest role as the most monstrous stage mother ever seen on stage. Gypsy is inspired by Gypsy Rose Lee's autobiography, but Ecdysiast Lee remembered Mama with the same refined, opera-length-glove finesse that she brought to her stripping. Mama played by Merman is forbiddingly, tiresomely brassy, a kind of Orpheum-circuit Medea. At curtain's rise, Mama Rose has already devoured three unshowbusinesslike husbands and is panting to staff...