Word: jacket
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Crowley took off the jacket of his expensive-looking, continental three piece suit and leaned back on the couch. He talked about the great increase in overtly-homosexual theatre in New York since Boys opened off Broadway (where it is still running) in 1968. "These plays come along," he said, "and homosexuals rush and descend on them-just like taste-makers anywhere else. But that audience runs out, and after two weeks these shows have to be playing to Mr. and Mrs. America...
...less than two hours it provides an anthology of liberal cant bound in a dust jacket of selfesteem. Lord Byron Jones (Roscoe Lee Browne) is a wealthy undertaker with two sources of shame: his skin, which is black, and his wife (Lola Falana), who has been carrying on with a white policeman (Anthony Zerbe). Jones discards his cowardice and sues for divorce-a maneuver designed to expose the sinners and, incidentally, the hypocrisy of the state of Tennessee. Jones' "liberation" is his murder, but along the way he frees his brethren and damns the Old South, as presented...
Tunics to Trunks. Department stores were only too delighted to respond to the spell. Most took full-page newspaper ads celebrating serpent fashions. Manhattan's Lord & Taylor opened a special shop, "Great Snakes," last month, stocked it with everything from real py thon tunics to synthetic-snake robes, jackets and dresses, and fake python steamer trunks. At Saks in San Francisco snaky accessories are going at such a striking rate there are never enough around for a window display. In Manhattan, boutiques got into the swing, repapered their walls with snakeskin and offered esoteric items like the cobra patchwork...
...LEFT the Faculty Club and went out into the cold. Auden, despite the fame and success, looking oddly vulnerable in his green wool sports jacket and rolled-down black socks. We wandered, wondering just which one of those yellow buildings was the Dana Palmer House. where Auden was staying. With some help we found it, and, with a pixie-like grin. oddly childlike on his wrinkled face, he shook my hand, thanked me, and shuffled hurriedly away...
...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...