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...college chums, and it includes shots of Actress Ann-Margret in the buff. To a Georgia jury, the film was hard-core porn. The high court Justices, who had it run off in their own private screening room, firmly disagreed. Mere "depiction of a woman with a bare midriff," said Justice William Rehnquist speaking for the court, would not disqualify a film from the protection of the First Amendment. While the Carnal Knowledge narrative fairly seethes with sex, he noted, "there is no exhibition of the actors' genitals, lewd or otherwise, during these scenes." Local juries, Rehnquist concluded, should...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Clearing the Calendar | 7/8/1974 | See Source »

...Shoes, she decided to become a ballerina. "I was heavy into recitals, a real little dancing queen," she recalls. "I tapped Tea for Two in silver lamé, and I used to do a sexy In a Persian Market in a mock leopard costume with a bare midriff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Victorious Loser | 9/3/1973 | See Source »

...film were not all simulated. Replies Schneider: "We were never screwing on stage. I never felt any sexual attraction for him, though my friends all told me I should. But he's almost 50, you know, and"-she runs her hand down her torso to her midriff-"he's only beautiful to here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Self-Portrait of an Angel and Monster | 1/22/1973 | See Source »

Aimed at the Midriff. Pisar argues that increased economic contacts with the West will work important political changes on the Communist system. He rejects the old cold war tenet that trade with the East will enhance its military capacity; he points out that the Soviet Union has attained nuclear parity with the U.S. anyway. "What we sell them goes to their midriffs, not their biceps," says Pisar. "Trade will take the fuses out of their ideology." He believes that "increased trade helps the East to evolve into consumer societies, that a 'fat' Communist is a peaceful Communist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: East-West Trade: Wielding a Tender Sword | 11/16/1970 | See Source »

...sell anything that is transparent and purple," she says. New Yorkers do not care what color it is: tissue-thin voile shirts are turning up like daffodils all over the city. In Washington, D.C., a lady reporter turned heads at the White House correspondents' dinner with a bare-midriff, see-through pajama set. Being diplomatic (or missing the point), George Romney asked: "Who is the blonde with all the hair?" In San Francisco, where openwork-crochet tunics are favorite items, one girl showed up at the Bachelor's Ball with a midriff bare but for a large aquamarine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Fashion: The Way of All Flesh | 5/16/1969 | See Source »

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