Word: toplessness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this, unfortunately, was about as strange as it got. The time the waitress in the topless bar ran screaming after a man with a thick Greek accent threatening to kill him was unaccountable, but not really strange. Most of the time was spent as an accountant at Touchstone Pictures might have planned, attending brunches, talking with celebrities, attending luncheons, watching movies, attending dinners. We members of the press accumulated our meticulous notes and tape-recordings, got tipsy, ate too much, and sat around being friendly with strangers...
...mind I wondered if I had lived up to my obligations. Might I have tried just a little bit harder to wring a few more drops of alcohol from the mini-bar? Might I have pressed a little bit harder for an expense account receipt from the topless bar? Mightn't I have had just a little bit more...
...judge is persuaded that each property was bought, as the Government charges, with narcotics profits traced to three reputed Colombian drug chieftains. Besides horses and real estate, agents in other cases have grabbed a surplus Navy bomber, a $25,000 gold-plated motorcycle, high-speed motorboats, a marina, a topless bar and a pair of Atlanta rib restaurants. Businesses are often temporarily run under Government auspices until confiscation proceedings are completed...
When the Jacksonville city council outlawed topless dancing in places where alcohol is sold, it did not bargain on the enterprise of Warren Colazzo. The owner of Fantasy World, one of the city's 14 topless bars, banned liquor rather than licentiousness. The outcome: a club full of 17-year-olds only too happy to sip Coke and near beer for a jiggle show...
City fathers quickly invoked laws protecting minors from indecency, but hundreds of 18-to-21-year-olds are still packing Fantasy World, while a federal court considers a challenge to the no-booze law. "The city council thought all the topless-bar owners would roll over on their backs," said Colazzo. Far from it. Even if they win in court, the tavern keepers threaten to sue the city again -- for "mental anguish...