Word: toplessly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...church and society at the Lutheran Theological Seminary, Gettysburg, Pa. Hale, 58, decided to try to find out why so many people prefer to be unchurched. Doing so he logged 30,000 miles by air, auto, foot and boat, even visiting almost inaccessible "hollers" in West Virginia and a topless bar near Sarasota, Fla. He lived for a month in each of six counties ranked by Glenmary as among the country's most irreligious.* Though social conformity makes church shunners tend to keep their views to themselves, Hale located 165 of them for intensive interviews...
...embarrassed-often by the clothes and manners of Sunday-best services. Recalls an Oregon housewife: "I kind of felt put down." Some blacks sense white prejudice. And then there are those whose lives became linked with unacceptable behavior: a woman lately married to a drunkard, a homosexual, a topless waitress in a Florida...
...exotic mélange riddled with hippies, surfers and executive dropouts. Out of this sprang a mutant pop culture. "Do your own thing" was the golden rule; ambivalence was its only sin. Mid-life divorce, recreational nudity and "Sunshine" LSD were all tolerated in the land of the topless shoeshine. Rock songs advertised the state (Fun, Fun, Fun) and its people (Eight Miles High). Thousands of teen-agers headed west and were hailed by older Californians seeking a formula for perpetual youth. Together they began an inner-directed search for a separate reality. Some trekked into the desert looking...
Rees described how he had to pay a whopping $5,000 to a former bootlegger to drive him to Santa Cruz. Eventually Rees landed in Fort Worth, where he frequented the topless nightclub circuit and met the lady known in his letter...
...with her boy friend. Currently, she is raising goose bumps, and even bringing a tear or two, as the put-upon heroine of Carrie, Brian De Palma's nightmare chiller about a young girl with telekinetic powers. For a little change of pace, she shows up as a topless housekeeper and part-time hooker in Welcome to L.A. (TIME, Nov. 22), winning the broadest laughs in a hard-edged social satire directed by Newcomer Alan Rudolph. Says Robert Altman, who produced Welcome to L.A. and proceeded to star Spacek in his own, just completed Three Women...