Word: skintight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tiny Piazza Umberto, Capri's main square. There the day excursionist mounts the steps behind the piazza-to save money, he does not take a cafe table-and watches the crowd swirling beneath: men with pink shoes and dyed blond hair, women in sequined toreador slacks or skintight shorts...
...terms of raw, do-it-or-else power, the impact of the Texas-Missouri compact may be close to zero. But in a skintight convention, the Truman-Rayburn party prestige and know-how just might make the difference...
Lightly togged in a skintight cream-colored dress-and little else-Cinemactress Marilyn Monroe bantered breathlessly with windswept Chicago newsmen on a potpourri of familiar topics. On underwear: "I have no prejudice against it." Sex: "How do I know about man's need for a sex symbol? I'm a girl. Sex counts like everything else. I'd never discount it." Press conferences: "Occasionally it's fun. Sometimes I can even get a chance to find out what I'm thinking...
...real western hero of the period bore little resemblance to the sweet-smelling show-business variety of latter days. He was literally ''wild and woolly and full of fleas/And seldom curried below the knees." Instead of skintight pants and store-boughten fumadiddle. he wore a pair of wide "hair pants." cut straight off the cow. He stank of bear grease and was usually crawling with "pants rats," as he called his lice. He slept with whores and Indian squaws, because there weren't many other women around, and whenever he got the chance, he got bear-eatin...
...uncritically, from pinball machines and burlesque shows to air conditioning and free thought. Patterning themselves on a sensational, bestselling novel that dealt mainly with free love, many of the postwar generation reveled in the name of the "sun-tribe people," traded in their kimonos for blue denims, flared jackets, skintight toreador pants. In the newly coeducational colleges, pony-tailed coeds and their boy friends claimed the right to experiment with trial marriages. On mountain trails near Karuizawa and in the beach shacks on the Izu shore, schoolboys and girls were found sleeping together. To their horrified elders, the new mambo...