Word: mod
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...surprisingly, Papp is the director and producer of the first musical related to the Women's Liberation movement, Mod Donna. A male playgoer is bound to approach a show like this with the trepidation of a little boy about to down a spoonful of cod-liver oil. He will be pleased to discover that Mod Donna is a bracing tonic...
There were definite signs of modernity. Everyone wore mod clothes, girls came in blue jeans and transclucent blouses through which boys could see their over-the-shoulder boulder-holders. The girls had more make-up; the boys, it seemed, fewer braces. The girls obviously had no idea how seductively their mothers had dressed them. Neither did the boys. Only me and the mathematics teachers, who loitered by the drinking fountain between classes looking for fresh talent...
...crowd shouted: "Run for Governor!" Back home after two years in Paris as the U.S. ambassador there, Shriver thus began a month or so of political sod-testing before deciding whether to run for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination in the September primary. Off the campuses, however, the mod-suited, conventionally handsome Kennedy in-law may find the Maryland soil somewhat difficult to till...
...talking son of a financial consultant to Latin American governments, Randell started his company in 1964 by publishing a summer-employment guide for students. Working from a base in Washington, D.C., he built up a network of 700 campus representatives to sell magazine subscriptions. By 1966, Randell had gone mod and was promoting computer-matched dating and half-fare cards for American Airlines. Other gimmicks that he and his campus representatives pushed included the outrageous and the plain corny: a pillow for sit-in demonstrators featuring a pocket containing No Doz pills to keep the user awake, a poster showing...
...last week the movement scaled new piques when more than 100 mod-and trouser-clad feminists marched into the fifth floor Manhattan headquarters of Downe Communications, publishers of the Ladies' Home Journal. The women (who represented a variety of Liberation groups) demanded "an immediate stop to the publication of articles that are irrelevant, unstimulating and demeaning to the women of America...