Word: toplessness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Feynman's curiosity has led him to unexpected places: close to the ground where he used his nose to learn how bloodhounds follow a trail, into topless restaurants where he indulged his interest in sketching anatomy, and inside sensory-deprivation tanks to experience hallucinations. His attention wavers and his patience wanes at forms of political and social studies that assume the trappings of science without the rigor. He insists on intellectual integrity, "a kind of leaning over backwards," to discover possibilities that may not be congenial to the investigator's conclusions...
Brother I conard wants to take him to a topless club: Charles would rather dive into a bed covered with Laura's pictures. An amateur philosopher, Leonad pontificates. "Look, sex has nothing to do with love: you can wash off sex," but Charles asks only to take Laura's picture with her clothes on, Leonard gets Charles a hooker, and the high school photo addict asks only...
...witness a typical mad Monday at JFK: a kid nearly bleeds to death as he waits for the nurse, a school psychologist flips out, and most of the teachers are in absentia. Nolte, the model teacher, is too busy in bed to be in class, and a lingering topless view of his bedmate puts Teachers on its way to a well-deserved R rating...
Though sales of new convertibles have not lived up to optimistic projections, they remain popular. Chrysler has sold 11,867 LeBaron and Dodge 600 convertibles this year, and Ford has moved 8,739 topless Mustangs. Jim Roberto, sales manager of Denver's Skyline Dodge, says he sells rag-tops as fast as he receives them. This fall another convertible will debut: a canvas-top version of the American Motors sub-compact Renault Alliance...
...talents of a curious assortment of the old-and new-wave garde, including Performance Artist Laurie Anderson, 36, Composers John Cage, 71, and Philip Glass, 46, Choreographer Merce Cunningham, 64, Beat Poet Allen Ginsberg, 57, Rock Singer Peter Gabriel, 33, and Cellist Charlotte Moorman, 44, once celebrated for her topless playing. Directed by Paik from the Pompidou Center in Paris and by George Plimpton, 56, acting as host at a studio in Manhattan, the one-hour live broadcast is described by Paik as a "celebration." Presumably, Big Brother will not be watching...