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...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...
...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...
Iacocca's LeBaron crystallized this ephemeral market, got Detroit thinking topless once again and started the convertible renaissance. Other U.S. makers are now weighing in with competitively priced models of their own. Chevrolet, aiming at what General Manager Robert Stempel calls the "wind-in-the-face crowd," is planning to introduce a version of its Cavalier in May, probably priced between $10,000 and $12,000. Ford's Mustang was reissued in November as a smartly styled convertible for about $12,500 and was a big star in commercials during the Super Bowl. Early production problems have been...
...string, like a scraped and protesting pet. A cellist, Charlotte Moorman, would appear for Paik at a concert and play her instrument with tiny TV sets rigged over her breasts; or, to the scandal and amusement of the New York art world in 1967, she would perform topless...