Word: haltered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...grossly expensive epic war film. Fairchild is working for scale ($195.80 a week) to break out of the blitz of vixen parts that Hollywood has offered since her bitchy role on television's Flamingo Road. "All they want you to do is run around in pants and a halter top," says the actress, who wears mostly that in Geniuses. "But it's theater," she argues, "and it's funny, and I like the play a lot, and that's the difference...
...respectful of the official looking velvet ropes. "You've got tv, and you've got movies and you've got records--but it's nice to have something that he actually touched, you know?" Something that was his." She's wearing a pair of nondescript blue jeans and a halter. She's in her late thirties. She hangs back in the crowd, which, as eight o'clock approaches, is well over three hundred. Everyone is meandering. There are Ford salesmen working the crowd. They jump like jackals when you drive up. They get ornery if you walk the other...
Pearl Croxton, another staff assistant in the Office of Fiscal Services, also questioned the newly-articulated policy. "If shoulders and backs can be exposed with halter tops, why not knees?" she asked, but added that if the matter were up to the discretion of the supervisor, she "would have to accept...
While Cantor said there is a "very blurry line" between men's shorts and women's attire such as halter tops, he said no rigid policy exists and his office only intercedes if the situation "is abused or abusive...
Finally, both porn and rape are based on a view that women are there for the taking, available to be possessed, "asking for it." A rapist may claim that he attacked a woman because she "asked for it"...by wearing tight jeans, a halter top, even going braless. Only when women are perceived as purely sexual creatures can their individual will be so ignored, and can the victim be blamed for the acts of the aggressor...