Word: topless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Heaven knows they tried. The burghers of Cannes spent more than $50 million erecting a new palace to house the convocation. The national TV networks sprayed coverage of the event all over prime time, with Jerry Lewis commenting on the news one night, a line of topless lovelies parading their charms another. Even the Cannes medical students chipped in; angered by the French government's proposed restrictions on their curriculum, they enlivened one afternoon with a bonfire of Michelin tires and an occupation of the palace that ended with flying fists and tear...
...everyday event for a woman to rise topless from a large cauldron in Memphis. But when Cheryllynn Ross did so last week as Hecate during the New York-based Metropolitan Opera touring performance of Macbeth, she was risking more than a chill: the city's tough new antinudity ordinance, aimed chiefly at topless dancers, could have brought quick arrest. Two division commanders of the local police were on the scene. Would they rush the cauldron and haul its contents off to the slammer...
...incident in stride. Carey Wong, of Opera Memphis, was rhapsodic: "It was a lovely gesture, a captivating moment." David Reuben, spokesman for the Met tour, suggested that if the Met could survive the 1906 earthquake in San Francisco, where it performed Carmen with Caruso, it would probably survive the topless tremors in Tennessee...
...many Memphis residents, upset by the proliferation of adult bookstores and topless nightclubs, MAD is not out of its mind. But even though Police Director John Holt insisted after the protest that the ordinance would still be enforced, he announced his own surprise: three high-ranking police officers on duty that night were put on suspension, without pay, two of them for being in the vicinity of the opera hall against orders. MASH jumped back into the fray with a declaration that policemen, like all other citizens, are entitled to go to the opera. As for MAD, perhaps it could...
...White Rock beverages for 89 years, has grown steadily more svelte. In 1894, says the company, she was 5 ft. 4 in. tall, weighed 140 Ibs. and sported measurements of 37-27-38. Now she is 5 ft. 8 in., 118 Ibs. and 35-24-34. She was always topless until 1975, when White Rock switched from paintings and started using photographs of a real, filmily clad woman in some promotional materials. Betty Crocker, the imaginary supercook at General Mills, has had five facelifts since 1936 to make her look younger and trendier. Careful observers may have noticed that Aunt...