Word: fishnets
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...grail of optics, invisibility, was nearly achieved this summer by researchers at University of California at Berkeley. Beforehand, scientists had only been able to bend longer waves, like radiowaves, around objects. The Berkeley team was able to engineer superior “metamaterials,” made from a fishnet-like lattice of metals, which could bend visible light around an object with little noticeable disruption. The process is still expensive, but the strategic benefits to the Army, which provided the funding, are obvious...
...Hers was a red-tailed snake named Luna. We stroked it. We were ready for anything. It was our last Saturday night as college students, and we had chosen to spend it at a peculiar ritual, the midnight meeting of cinema and fishnet stockings and social castoffs that is known as “The Rocky Horror Picture Show.” But first we needed our tickets, and answer if Luna the snake could...
...camera with me, but I didn’t shoot any photos of the crowd. I didn’t want to stick out. I was wearing red and black fishnet tights. I could blend...
...cast ordered them to perform pelvic thrusts, model their fishnet dresses and man-dresses, and, finally, simulate an orgasm. A girl, referred to as “Tits” by the host for physical reasons, was allowed to do five jumping jacks instead. These tasks formed the criteria for a competition to be chosen as the show’s special virgins, allowed to briefly perform some of the screen mimicking...
...injustice. “Whatever you do, whatever choice you make, now is the time for women to be involved,” Feldt said. Feminism is about “seeing ourselves in the movement” and challenging norms established for feminists—whether by wearing fishnet stockings or playing around with sexual norms, said Martin, a 27-year-old author and filmmaker. “I think feminism should be joyful, playful, and me having the ability to choose these things,” she said. Martin, who referred to herself...