Word: stripping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...north country rugby team. Six days of the week, they are peaceable, nondescript employees somewhere. On the seventh day, they gird up their loins for gory combat. The changing room is where they come and go from their catchpenny Armageddon. In Act I, the men perform their initiation rites, strip down, loosen muscles, get into their uniforms. In Act II, they come off the field of combat, boy-toy soldiers, some broken (George Lithgow) all muddy and bloody. In Act III, after a late-minute victory, they are roaring, towel-flipping conventioneers with a communal shower for champagne...
FRIDAY: John Lennon and Yoko Ono The Lennons host Stevie Wonder, Sha Na Na, and Roberta Flack in an all-star performance from Madison Square Garden. Ch. 5. 10 p.m. Color. 60 min. SATURDAY--Viva Maria Brigitte Bardot and Jeonne Moreau play Maria I and Marin II, two strip-tease dancers caught up in a Central American revolution in this 1965 Louis Malle directed French slapstick. CH. 4. 9 p.m. Color. 2hrs .15min...
Unlike the reusable (and breakable) glass thermometer, the new product looks something like a Band-Aid. It is a short, thin strip of plastic-coated aluminum printed with a series of numbers from 96° to 104°. Next to every number is a row of five small dots representing gradations of two-tenths of a degree, and each dot contains a different chemical formulation, which reacts and turns blue at a precise temperature. When placed in the mouth for 30 seconds, v. three minutes for a conventional thermometer, the device shows a progression of blue dots until the person...
Because of this attitude of acceptance--indeed glorification--of the existing system to strip development as a perfectly legitimate middle-class aesthetic, critics have dubbed Venturi the "Nixonite" of architecture. Yet however attractive he might make the strip appear in a book whose layout is so elaborate that the price can be no lower than $25, the strip without a doubt still represents one of the ugliest environments that has ever existed. It is easy for Venturi to avoid questions such as why acres of landscape have to be covered with asphalt for parking lots, why the construction of such...
...Loper went to Hollywood in the early '40s to co-produce and dance in the Ginger Rogers movie Lady in the Dark. At MGM he enjoyed a seven-way contract that made him dancer, choreographer, costume designer, set designer, producer, director and actor. He later opened a Sunset Strip couture house from which he clothed some of Hollywood's most famous women-including Marlene Dietrich, Lana Turner, Claudette Colbert-for prices up to $25,000 a dress...