Word: topless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Eyebrow Plucking. Leader of the bareness-now, right now, school is still Rudi Gernreich, whose 1964 topless set off the exposure explosion. In his 1968 collection, he compromises slightly by using see-through vinyl to hold together the tops and bottoms of his bathing suits. He says: "Only the areas that must be covered are covered-with wool knit." But at least he concedes that coverable areas exist, which for Gernreich is something...
...mood and style of Marat/Sade. The moans and hisses of the patients have become a crescendo of grunts, screams and belches that resembles feeding time at the zoo. The naked backside of Marat seems to have emboldened a score of males and females to face the audience topless and bottomless, an unforeseen threat to costume designers. The writhings and stomping of Marat/Sade's insane have inspired a corybantic kind of choreography in which the dancers become as hopelessly intertwined as the Laocoön family. The message seems to be that sense is out and the senses...
...super de luxe motel instead, allowing Lester to display the automated checkin, the key that lights up when you reach your door, and the vibrating double bed. When a pal wants to have a serious talk with Scott about his marital problems, they go to lunch at a topless restaurant so that the camera can do some plain and fancy dollying. Lester also swings a skillful and satirical lens around deserted Fort Winfield Scott, the Penguin Pool at Fisherman's Wharf and the hippie scene, contriving somehow to get his actors into most of the scenes. There...
Students of the ridiculous will be gratified to learn that the city mothers of Phoenix, Ariz., some months ago organized a Mothers' March Against Topless. That is not quite as gratifying, perhaps, as would have been the news of a Topless March Against Mothers...
...some people really think that Nan Wood Graham posed for the bikini and topless versions of American Gothic, she should be happy to pay Johnny Carson and Playboy magazine $9,000,000 in appreciation...