Word: midriffs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...close-fitting sheaths and tubes -as at Saint Laurent, who showed the skinniest of all, faintly reminiscent of the long T shirts popular a while back in ready-to-wear-or fairly full skirted with waists clearly marked by tucks and belts, as Givenchy does them. Suits emphasize the midriff too, with slim skirts, or skirts tucked to the hipbone, worn with jackets that skim the body closely. Jersey, flannel and gabardine are daytime favorites, with the emphasis on navy, white and variations on tones of beige; and the dressier clothes lean to muslins, chiffons and thin crepes in soft...
...most devastating influence of the circumpolar vortex has been felt in a broad tropical belt stretching round the globe. As the edge of the great wind system reaches closer to the planet's midriff, it has blocked moisture-laden equatorial winds. No longer have they been able to bring needed rain to such diverse areas as India, parts of Central America and West Africa's Sahel. Already suffering from years of overgrazing, the Sahel has dried up so badly that the Niger River can be forded by foot for the first time in centuries. In effect, the Sahara...
...second, were two men who epitomize the drab, jockish, predictable touring pro: Tom Weiskopf, the close-cropped, 6 ft. 3 in. Mr. All-American Boy who walks around as if there were a one-iron shoved up his ass; and Jim Weichers, a 6 ft. 2 in., 220 lb. midriff-bulging country bumpkin type, who lets his tongue hang out when he swings a golf club. Hill had to win out over those two clowns, and I had to beat the fat old schlock-slingers who never left the press tent with some real, live first-person coverage...
...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...
...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...