Word: rustproof
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even bolder is Giorgio di Sant' Angelo's gold-plated chain bikini, which depends for modesty on two layers of chains; hopefully, even if the outer layer parts, the under layer of smaller baby chains will provide a veil. Rustproof, the suit can be worn swimming. "Chain on the nude body can be very decent," insists Sant' Angelo, who gives the hippies credit for putting the chain back into fashion. Says the Manhattan designer with approbation: "They took the symbol of bondage and transformed it into a symbol of emancipation...
...obscure truck driver until he was killed in an accident last August, but today Lei Feng is Red China's newest folk hero. Otherwise celebrated as the Forever Rustproof Screw, young Communist Lei Feng soared to posthumous fame when party officials conveniently discovered a 200,000-word diary that established him as the Confucius of collectivism. By contrast with the vast majority of China's peasants, whose reluctance to be herded into agricultural communes in 1958 has been largely responsible for the nation's persistent food shortages, Lei Feng actually waxed lyrical over such selfless, soulless "service...