Word: sheerness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Scatological Satires. But when it comes to sheer shock value, no one can match the Fugs. The Fugs have no use for innuendo: they lay it right on the line. While such ditties as Wet Dream over You and Group Grope (which features two simulated orgasms) are obvious even to the grown-up squares, the Fugs' scatological satires have gained a steadily growing audience on the college campuses. Says Chief Fug Ed Sanders: "There are too many taboos in society, and we want to eliminate them. Being a Fug is better than being on a peace walk...
...sheer exclusiveness, danger and sangfroid, no sport quite matches hydroplane racing. The boats are worth upwards of a quarter of a million dollars, and there are perhaps only 20 unlimited-class hydroplane racers in the world. Last week 15% of them were wiped out in a single race. The official - and somewhat chill - reaction, from Lee Schoenith of the American Power boat Association: "I don't think it's go ing to have any great effect. But it sure isn't going to be the same kind of sea son for the participants...
Backless, Frontless. For some, it was tricky going. Emilio Pucci's sheer white halter top and harem pants arrived at Linda Hackett's Park Avenue apart ment with a written warning that she would have to do something about keeping her bosom in. "Band-Aids don't work," she later declared. But Linda, who designs clothes herself, engineered it all with a mysterious combination of "spirit gum and something else...
Five Cheaters. Harper's Bazaar editor and former model China Machado wore what she called "just me" beneath Yves St. Laurent's Cleopatra dress -a snowfall of shimmering spangles around bosom and hips joined by sheer, flesh-color chiffon. But others, who felt uneasy about the quasi-nude fashions, decided to cheat. Newporter Minnie Gushing, tall and stately with cascading hair, wore a body stocking under her gold latticework Desdemona robe designed by Oscar de la Renta...
Scene by scene, his compositions are works of art-but nearly always still lifes in which a man and a woman settle themselves on a couch or settee to discuss this thing called hove, both gazing trancelike into the middle distance as if to draw metaphysical meaning from the sheer monotony of it. "I feel I'm staring into a fire that is about to be extinguished," muses Gertrud in a line that expresses the umber tone of the work precisely. The poignant revelation of Gertrud is that Dreyer, now 77, has made an old man's film...