Word: nudists
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...highbrow style, though the book's finest moment, in "ashes," is a haunting and serious meditation on his mother's death from cancer. But when we arrive at the final essay, the title piece, we realize Sedaris wants to do more than be funny. He spends time in a nudist colony not only to poke fun at people but also to be able to present the world in all its unadorned vericose-veininess, its rippling obesity and sexual deformity: not a bright or pleasant vision, but a deftly-delivered one that rings true and invites people to examine their...
...because I didn't offend anybody but a postal inspector in Memphis," he says, referring to the government official who launched the investigation. Thomas also faces charges in Salt Lake City of distributing images of naked children, but he insists those images aren't sexually explicit. "They are from nudist colonies," he says. "Many of them are family snapshots...
There aren't too many Venezuelan beekeeper/subsistence farmers in the Class of 1970. There aren't too many nudist framers who homeschooled their children, astrologists who legally changed their names or lawn mowers in Maui either...
DIED. ED LANGE, 75, photographer-nudist; in Los Angeles. Lange regularly contributed to the pages of Vogue and Life, but his true passion was the "clothing-optional" movement. He began publishing pronudist screeds in 1961 and in 1967 opened the Elysium Institute in L.A.'s laid-back Topanga Canyon. Daring in its day, the in-the-raw retreat is now such a community fixture that Lange was named citizen of the year by the local chamber of commerce...
Wishman's 1962 classic "Nude on the Moon" will be shown. None of her films are heavy on plot, but here goes: two men ride to the moon in what looks like an enormous aluminum soda can to find a female, nudist utopia. This is "Earth Girls Are "Easy" and "Teenage Vixens from Outer Space" meet the sex-shop slaves, fulfilling the horny fantasies of the Earthling...