Word: fig
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...herself invented it (Genesis 3:7). The late Gypsy Rose Lee listed it as one of her favorite indoor sports. Leslie Uggams and Mrs. Hubert Humphrey do it regularly-and so do nearly 50 million other American women. Nonetheless, home sewing was scarcely worth a fig leaf until the late '60s. Today it is a $3 billion business, up from $1.3 billion just seven years ago, thanks to a happy combination of factors. Coinciding with rising costs and declining quality of retail clothing, there came a new widespread interest in creative handicrafts. At the same time, improved sewing machines...
With so much seminudity on the streets, it is not surprising that beach outfits have reached a new nadir in coverage. The most daring of all are the "monokinis"-topless and almost bottomless suits that have been pared to fig-leaf proportions. Wearing them takes courage, but there is plenty of that on the beaches of southern France, where women of all ages have been going topless for at least three years. Even in the more conservative U.S., predicts Rudi Gernreich, the inventor of the shortlived topless suit of 1964, "in five years people will be swimming nude in public...
...Columnist Joseph Kraft, "President Nixon is risking almost everything to gain practically nothing" because the best the Administration can achieve is a "fig leaf for defeat." On the same day's Washington Post op-edit page, Rowland Evans and Robert Novak called the President's latest move "dangerously high-risk poker," but speculated that the pot could be rewarding in two ways: by thwarting a fresh Communist offensive in the fall while keeping the Russians far enough below the boiling point to save a Moscow-Washington agreement on nuclear-arms limitations. The Washington Star, meanwhile, declared that...
...Robert Peel-a reckless spendthrift descended from the Prime Minister who gave his nickname "Bobby" to the English policeman-ended unhappily. Her one child, the last Sir Robert, died when his ship was hit by Japanese bombs in 1942. She apparently never considered remarrying and spurned no less a fig ure than Clark Gable. " 'You lost your son, I lost my wife,' " she quotes Gable as saying. " 'Why don't we get married?' I didn't see the logic, to be perfectly frank . . . Such a lovely...
...collage by Dennis Wheeler that incorporates a stylized face and some of the dark profession's paraphernalia. One of Wheeler's best remembered contributions was for the 1969 cover "The Sex Explosion." He used a color photograph of a nude couple seen behind a giant, zippered fig leaf...