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Margot Crosman's "Half-Drawn" comes closer than the other pieces to the idiom of the theater. "Half-Drawn" begins with four near-nude women in a room. Three don party shoes and climb under a big quilt; the fourth dresses herself in a long black sheath and black gloves, then opens the door for a man in a tux. No more said...

Author: By Susan A. Manning, | Title: Pas de Ghoul | 1/22/1976 | See Source »

...like a regular pair of men's pants except around the groin, you know?" Cleaver said. "In a conventional pair of pants the penis gets tucked behind the pants, you know?" He imitated a tucking motion with his hands. "But in these pants, the penis is held in a sheath of cloth that sticks outside of the pants...

Author: By Mark Stillman, | Title: Eldridge Cleaver's New Pants | 9/26/1975 | See Source »

...frog fasteners down the front. The look, Adolfo allows, "is very sexy. It is cut to show the fanny, and if you have a little tummy, it shows that too. Men like it very much." So does the Duchess of Windsor, who was carried away by a polka-dotted sheath at an Adolfo show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: The Chinese Look: Mao a la Mode | 7/21/1975 | See Source »

...woman said she could not as long as he was moving the sheath. Napoleon replied that if she had done the same thing, she never would have been raped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 12, 1974 | 8/12/1974 | See Source »

...show in Las Vegas, Ann-Margret will ride onstage on a Harley, wearing a jumpsuit, accompanied by a chorus squad of motorcyclists. At the end of the scene she will unzip the sirensuit, revealing herself in a flesh-colored body stocking, before climbing into a high-necked, bead-studded sheath. Offstage, the pneumatic star claims to prefer cover-up clothes. Still, when she showed up in Manhattan last week at Warlock Rex Reed's party for Film Maker Eleanor Perry, Ann-Margret must have known she would be on-camera, so she wore a costume she is comfortable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 19, 1973 | 11/19/1973 | See Source »

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