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...like jack-o'-lanterns' teeth. Giorgio di Sant'Angelo uses raw, unfinished leather in midi skirts that end up ragged, jagged, and almost Neanderthal in effect. Mollie Parnis lets her hems hang any old way, and does most of her exposing higher up, in necklines that gape open in V's, scallops, horseshoes or scoops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: The Midi's Compensations | 6/8/1970 | See Source »

...title promises, a parade of the naked-male and female-are exposed to the unsuspecting, with entirely predictable results. An undraped lady waits for an elevator; men emerge, confront her and gape. One even offers his jacket. For a sex lecture, the lady instructor arrives in the buff, prompting a genial response from a student audience, and furious blushing and giggles from four parents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Flinch by Flinch | 3/9/1970 | See Source »

...gape unbelieving at those two lines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poetry: Combatting Society With Surrealism | 1/24/1969 | See Source »

Across the street, at the corner of Cambridge and Quincy Streets, a small crowd gathered to gape at the ice palace that earlier that morning had been an Economics Department office building. Gutted by a blaze, the building was soused with water that quickly froze into fairyland formations. Icicles like blodthirsty pixies held the building in an iron grip...

Author: By Anne DE Saint phalle, | Title: Ice-Age Returns In 20th Century | 1/9/1968 | See Source »

...Israelis, the view from the Syrian heights is nothing short of a fifth dimension. Above Israel's northern Huleh Valley, kibbutzniks still shudder with relief and joy as they gape from Syrian bunkers at their pitifully exposed homes. This is how the Syrians saw it for 19 years as they casually lobbed shells onto valley settlements...

Author: By David Blumenthal, | Title: Israel: The View From a Kibbutz | 10/18/1967 | See Source »

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