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...Last week at a casino in Atlantic City, N.J., he opened in Sugar, a musical stage adaptation of the 1959 movie Some Like It Hot. Despite his previous experience with nylons, however, Broadway Joe found dressing like a broad a definite drag. "I tore the first three pair of fishnet stockings I put on," said Namath. He plays Josephine, the saxophone player who poses as a woman in an all-girl band to avoid the Mob and falls in love with Sugar Kane, an all-woman girl played on film by Marilyn Monroe. The show has been doing well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 23, 1984 | 4/23/1984 | See Source »

...that the government set the bread or poverty line at 175 rands a month (one rand equals about $1.05), the driver said that Soweto's street cleaners earn 144 rands per month. The tour stopped at a factory for handicapped workers, where crippled and deformed men and women knit fishnet bags, clean foam, and weave tapestries on primitive looms. The chubby white director refused to divulge wages. "I never ask anybody what he makes, so I never discuss these matters," she snapped. One employee said he received 14 rands in July; another said he had been paid eight...

Author: By James Altschul, | Title: South Africa: No Sand Left in the Hour Glass | 10/2/1981 | See Source »

...itself adopt what the paper just four months ago described as "the breathless, grubby vision of the world inherent in the Murdoch style." Tongue tucked in cheek, Daily Mirror Columnist Keith Waterhouse told readers not to fret. "The girls," he wrote, "will appear in the Times Literary Supplement wearing fishnet stockings and mortarboard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Murdoch's Risk | 2/2/1981 | See Source »

...most Harvard students, House football represents the final chapter of a dream that began many falls ago in suburban peewee league. There are a few stalwart individuals, however, who resist the forces of the outside world and continue to don their pads and fishnet jerseys long after graduation day. One such rugged individual is Paul Erickson, Quincy House resident tutor in English and Harvard's oldest living House football player...

Author: By Sara J. Nicholas, | Title: Long Live House Vikings | 11/12/1980 | See Source »

...metal funnel under a scale hanging from a tripod. Only once is Blazer pecked, by an irritable banty named Mindy (Mork, next up, is more docile). A leghorn named White Flyer escapes in the transfer from box to scale and flies into heavy brush a hundred feet away. The fishnet squad is dispatched. Frets Owner Andy Cline of McArthur, Ohio, "I just hope she gets rested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Ohio: A Fowl Spectacle | 7/2/1979 | See Source »

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