Word: nudes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...share of artistic problems. Sea breezes used to ruffle the models' clothes until someone devised a stiffener to make them lie flat. Unclothing was even more of a challenge in a more circumscribed age. When a director broke the modesty barrier by offering to pay nude models $10 a night, critics objected to this violation of volunteerist esprit de corps. Nowadays women and men of all ages are only too willing to bare all for Laguna. Indeed, a 1969 nude volunteer named Cathe Mennen is enshrined as a heroine of the pageant. While she posed in a statuary group...
...everyone else. It's a series of vigorous pop numbers and bittersweet comedy schticks covering the familiar themes of the decade before last. When it opened 14 years ago on Broadway. It shocked and delighted, drawing nationwide attention for its frank treatment of racial tension and a brief nude scene that closes the first act. Boston authorities tried unsuccessfully to ban Hair in 1970, by which time it was being performed all over the world...
Brown recreators David Yazbeck and Shaun Clark have preserved almost everything. Yes, including a new interpretation of the nude scene. From what's visible through a haze of red floodlights, everyone seems-to shake it quite confidently. The more demanding routines range from passable college-level performances you might encounter on the Dunster House Dining Hall stage to truly inspired renditions from a score which was gutsy and fun to begin with. The 19-member troupe does far better as a whole pushing the decibel level to something just short of a primal scream than do any of the principals...
Sheik Mohammad Al Fassi, 27, a Saudi Arabian princeling who has lived in the U.S. for four years, keeps stumbling into the limelight. When he Lived in Beverly Hills, Calif., he had the nude statuary outside his mansion painted in rather vivid flesh tones; the mansion was later gutted by fire. Then he dropped a few million here (some of it to shed two troublesome wives) and a few million there (to resettle in Florida). Last week the sheik's profligacy earned him a new bit of screwball notoriety. The Diplomat Hotel in Hollywood, Fla., claimed that Fassi...
White acknowledged the risks to legitimate publications containing pictures of nude children and to other works that are pornographic only in isolated segments. "Yet we seriously doubt," he argued, that more than "a tiny fraction" of worthwhile materials would be involved. Not everyone shared the court's optimism on that score. Said Herald Price Fahringer, who represented Ferber: "This decision could inspire more censorship, and I find that alarming...