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Word: sheathe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Body Consciousness. The strapless look got broad exposure at the recent Academy Awards presentations when Elizabeth Taylor, Marlo Thomas and Marisa Berenson shouldered their part of the show in Halston sarongs. Audrey Hepburn sailed through her first Hollywood appearance in eight years in a strapless sheath by Givenchy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Look, No Straps | 5/3/1976 | See Source »

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 »

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