Word: ecdysiasts
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...flight 408 to New York, she has been rotating her midsection, rolling her eyes shimmying her shoulders and flexing her thighs. And she is not the only one-just about everyone aboard is doing this "sitdown rumba." Is this a traveling company of A Chorus Line? In-flight ecdysiast transcendentalists...
From the stage of Boston's Pilgrim Theater, a seedy burlesque house in the city's newly designated "Combat Zone" for sex films and ecdysiast exhibitions, a shapely, silken-gowned Fanne Foxe, "the Argentine Firecracker," had a surprise for her audience. "I'd like you to meet somebody," she said, then called to the wings: "Mr. Mills, Mr. Mills! Where are you?" Onto the stage strode Arkansas Congressman Wilbur Daigh Mills, 65, the redoubtable Democratic chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee. Placing a hand on Fanne's shoulder, Mills began a brief exchange...
Died. Rose LaRose, 59, ecdysiast extraordinary whose artistry as a burlesque stripper earned her $2,000 a week during the 1940s; of cancer; in Toledo. A five-foot-two brunette, LaRose began working as a cashier in New York City's Minsky's Theater at the age of 14 to buy herself clothes for school. She quickly graduated to the stage, then to stardom, and in her heyday paid as much as $2,500 per costume. After her retirement from the runway in 1958, she managed her own burlesque house in Toledo before hard times forced its conversion...
...lead the way in popularizing scores of new words from G.I. to A-bomb and egghead. Richard Scammon's "unyoung, unpoor and unblack" description of the average American was quoted in TIME, and its reception encouraged him to co-author The Real Majority. We found ecdysiast, first minted by H.L. Mencken, a delightful way of describing Gypsy Rose Lee, and helped make it a part of the language. The title beatnik, originally bestowed on Bohemian writers in San Francisco, became a generic term in the pages of TIME. McCarthyism and Castroism first came into general use in the magazine...
...meeting of the Washington chapter of the Society for the Further Respectability of Burlesque, Veteran Ecdysiast Ann Corio turned up in laced brown leather boots, which she said were her tribute to the woodsmen of the world and (because they zipped up the back) the zipper industry. "I always feel I've failed the zipper industry," said Miss Corio. "I use hooks and eyes on all my garments because the movement to unhook them is both quicker and more graceful than the long, often erratic gesture of zipping. Early in my stripping career, a zipper failed to unzip, quite...