Word: toplessness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ohio), Johns Hopkins Hospital and University, the Preakness, H.L. Mencken and Edgar Allan Poe (not to mention Spiro Agnew). It is also one of the last American possessors of a genuine honky-tonk district, known fondly as The Block, though even that lusty landmark has been sadly vulgarized by topless dancing and a renewal project that has largely plasticized its façade. Mencken once complained that the Baltimore harbor of his youth had smelled in summer like "a billion polecats." Today the Inner Harbor is not a cesspool but a scene of jams and jollity. The white middle class...
Consider Darby Crash, lead singer of the Germs. When the band was formed, their manager recalls, "they didn't know how to play their instruments." Darby still hasn't learned to sing into the mike during performances. Instead, he lurches across and off the stage topless, his baby fat segueing to paunch, his voice clogged with booze and speed, his bruised, burned and scarred body looking like a souvenir from a guerrilla war in which he was the only participant. He passes time offstage with his pet tarantula and his friend Michelle, who giggles about...
About four minutes are being cut from the film. In one deleted sequence, which Bo describes as "really sweet and cute," the star wrestles topless with an orangutan. In the other, her nude body is painted in preparation for sacrifice to the dread
...flash point was the original ad campaign, which stressed the topless debut of Julie Andrews. "Clearly they perceive the film first as the baring of my wife's breasts and second as a comedy," he protests. Paramount scrapped the campaign when Edwards threatened to remove the scene. Next, he tangled with the studio over the cost of a press junket, finally paying the $110,000 tab himself. "I want to tell you that various people are repeating lines right out of the script," he cries. "It is life imitating art. Every day, by phone or telex, they validate...
...Allied Bank of Texas (1980 assets: $1.3 billion) presided soberly and quietly over the bank's 15-man international division. But by night, the portly and bearded Wiggins moved onto a faster track, barhopping along Houston's nightclub circuit, where he showed affection to his favorite topless dancers with $100 tips...