Word: leotard
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That is why the code's nine-member review board convenes periodically to examine the ad guidelines as it did last week in Phoenix. Among arguments they heard was a plea from Playtex that ads showing brassieres floating through space or worn over a model's leotard fail to communicate their virtues adequately. Playtex had tested one of the show-it-like-it-is bra commercials that it runs in Europe on U.S. TV recently, and assured the board that the ad was calmly received. But the members, evidently lacking the common denominator for such a sweeping change...
...Venus de Milo and often performed her astounding dances wearing nothing but a chiffon shawl. In an adjoining room, the eye-popping costumes of St. Louis-born Folies-Bergère Dancer Josephine Baker provided a contrast to Isadora's severity. One of them was a sequined fishnet leotard, another a skirt of white satin bananas. "I wasn't really naked," Josephine used to say. "I simply didn't have any clothes...
...women roving the floor who will buy a customer a drink and smooth the wrinkles in his shirt for $6.00, and several men seem to be waiting suspensefully for the one in the white gown with sharply etched shoulder blades and pointed elbows, or the one in the pink leotard riding high over tremulous flanks...
With the unfolding of the double drama of Paul (Philippe Leotard) as ambitious politician on the move and lustful man on the make. The Middle of the World beckons with the promise of that all-too-rare film that synthesizes the two great battles of life, the political and the sexual. The action moves from the smoky back room, where cynical machine men map out the fate of society, to the honky tonk cafe, where a tacit smile and a pair of pretty legs determine the fate of individuals, and in the process we seem to get a valuable glance...
...literal and non-dramatic, those by Rosamund Purcell, also a graduate of B.U., are mysterious and taught with background. Purcell works almost exclusively with Polaroid Land materials. She is the most experimental of the four artists exhibited, using superimposed images, double exposures and unusual lighting--a woman clad in leotard and tight lying in a cone of light on a wooden floor is transformed into an unconscious astronaut hurtling through black space...