Word: stripping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cerebral. In crossing the wide Atlantic, the Minsky strip-act has undergone a subtle sea change. There are few, if any, bumps and grinds in the French version, and no unseemly cries of "Take it off!" from rows of bald heads. "The French," explains the Crazy Horse's Scottish dance director, "are cerebral. They have to have something to think about." Some of the thinking variations now going on in Paris : a drunken bride takes off her clothing in desultory fashion as she awaits her new husband; a strip-quiz in which each correct answer gives the audience participant...
Whatever the gimmick, Frenchmen of all walks of life were enthusiastic about the strip. "I support the striptease out of admiration for female loveliness and respect for human dignity," boomed 73-year-old Professor Edmond Heuze of the Beaux Arts Academy. "It's better," said Amateur Champion Yvette Masson, a typist, "than being cooped up in an office...
Steel Inspector. To find microscopic holes in strip steel before it is made into tin cans, General Electric Co. has developed a gadget that shines a powerful light on the strip to make pinholes show up. The detector can find holes less than the diameter of a human hair while the strip runs by at 2,000 ft. a minute...
Chocolate Straws. A drinking straw that turns plain milk into chocolate milk has been put on the market by Los Angeles' Frontier Foods Corp. The Flavr Straw contains a strip of sugarless chocolate that dissolves in the milk passing through. Frontier Foods plans soon to add strawberry and root-beer flavors. Price: 23? a dozen...
Only a narrow belt along the seacoast of Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut escaped the minus readings, but night brought temperatures of 10 degrees to that strip...