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...through blouse, with a bra of the same fabric but lined (and therefore opaque) to keep the blouse a blurb instead of the advertisement it becomes when worn over nothing. Then there are see-through pants (under them, a matching opaque bikini bottom) and cleavage: vertical in skirts slit all the way up to the waist, horizontal in boleros that cut a wide swath through the midriff and barely remember to cover the breasts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Fashion: The Way of All Flesh | 5/16/1969 | See Source »

Even in these bloody times, the violence in Riot is rather extravagant: when cons are shot in the chest, gore gushes from their mouths, and throats are slit with slashing abandon. Director Buzz Kulik shot the film entirely in the Arizona State Prison, more for the sake of novelty than authenticity. He never once manages to capture the claustrophobic frustration of prison life. Although Riot aspires to be reformist social criticism, it is about as effective-and moving-as a convict chorus of Don't Fence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Movies: In Stir | 1/31/1969 | See Source »

...admiration for grand designs of the spirit was tempered, as the letters show, by a fine sensuous eye. "Imagine slender, tall Chinese women like snakes erected upright," he reported during his first visit to Singapore. "Never did the human body look so like a sword. And through the dresses slit open at the sides, at each step, the yellow blade of the leg glistens-slender, strong, irresistible-right up to the pelvis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Willing Spirit | 12/27/1968 | See Source »

Midway between idiocy and profundity, he dragged her on like a half-dead cat waiting for its next life. He pointed out an angel with a slit throat lying by the roadside. The myths have collapsed and they journeyed faceless...

Author: By Adele M. Rosen, | Title: A Trip Around With Kenneth Patchen's Mind | 12/17/1968 | See Source »

...take me to the 'secret headquarters' of Abu Ammar [code name of Arafat]. To my surprise, he did. Four hours later, by an olive grove, I watched the Fatah leader transact business with two dozen runners, shake the hands of wounded soldiers, and shared a slit trench with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Dec. 13, 1968 | 12/13/1968 | See Source »

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