Word: skin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first pop-top garments were almost as stiff as their medieval counterparts. But Chavez has made them much more supple. "They fit like a second skin," he claims. "As you wear them, they change shape a little and mold themselves to the contours of the body." Rings differ too. Budweiser's rings are light and flexible, Miller High Life's are "soft," and Pepsi's provide a heavier, stiffer garment...
Although Chavez does not recommend it, some of his customers have risked pinches or scratches by wearing pop-tops over their bare skin. "The first topless chick to try a vest," he says, "caught her right nipple in a ring. I think it looked groovy, but I can recognize the snags...
...calmly assesses the coverage of demonstrations on the University of Denver campus last May, and carefully documents some obvious excesses. Elsewhere in TUM, an item deplores a tendency by minority groups in Colorado to bar newsmen from meetings "because they don't speak Spanish or have the wrong skin color." Another notes that a TV cameraman encouraged a police officer at a demonstration to stir up some action worth photographing...
...when the estate was used as a refugee camp and also briefly housed a French army contingent of Moslem Moroccans. The Moslems, noting the presence of some 3,000 women refugees, were duly, if mistakenly, impressed. Italian Novelist Curzio Malaparte records the impression in his book The Skin: "Three thousand wives! The Pope was undoubtedly the most powerful monarch in the world...
...LePeters' identity is built on a cultural fault line, the characters around him are bizarre monoliths. His boss, Bruno Glober, spends working hours slathering over skin magazines and evenings spreading around huge sums of cash raked in from an interest in an international slacks cartel. The homicide squad itself includes such legends of cop-hood as Detective Teener, who has been so chipped away by criminals' bullets that his body is composed almost entirely of spare parts, and Detective Medici, the Dean of Child Molestation. Put with all the robust vulgarity and double-entendre that Bruce Friedman obviously...