Word: jockstraps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While in the White House, Harry Truman once wrote to a music critic who had snickered at Daughter Margaret's singing that the fellow would be needing a jockstrap if they ever met. Now it turns out that advancing age and tranquil retirement in Independence, Mo., did nothing to sweeten the tongue or soften the wrath of the 33rd President of the United States. In a book appropriately titled Plain Speaking, to be published in February (G.P. Putnam's Sons), Truman displays all of his oldtime fire...
...little bit of rape is good for a man's soul," announced Norman Mailer in a speech at the University of California at Berkeley. While Mailer waxed outrageous and his audience enthusiastically heckled, someone tossed a burning jockstrap onto the stage and a prancing pair of Gay Liberationists got themselves busted. Despite the racket. Mailer held forth on his subject: "Richard Milhous Nixon and Women's Liberation." In the process he dropped such nuggets as "Richard Nixon walks like a puppet with strings controlled by a hand within his own head," "Most women have just started to think...
...most important thing in Toback's bag, however, was the jockstrap ego of an ex-college athlete. Within an hour after he met Jim Brown at his home above Sunset Strip, the two were out on the basketball court in Brown's driveway. Down nine to nothing in a ten-point, one-on-one game, the man who walked out on pro football to prove his competence as an actor, businessman and racial leader very softly asks Toback if he really thinks he is going to win. Brown then sinks ten straight, leaving a thoroughly psyched Toback revealed...