Word: toplessness
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...relaxed summer beaches of Rio de Janeiro, nobody glances twice when a woman parades by in a microscopic bikini or wriggles out of her top to sunbathe. But last month pet-shop assistant Rosemeri da Costa, 34, was tanning herself topless on Recreio beach when a shadow fell across her towel. She looked up and saw a gang of policemen armed with truncheons standing over her. In a spasm of puritanism, the police had decided to enforce a 70-year-old law against immorality. They demanded that Da Costa slip back into her top. When she refused, the police dragged...
Many Brazilians were outraged. Why were lawmen wasting their time harassing topless women in a city with one of the highest murder rates in the world? Protesters stormed Rio's legendary beaches of Copacabana and Ipanema. Women covered their breasts with placards that read DOWN WITH SEXISM, UP WITH PLEASURE, while men strutted along the shore wearing women's bikini tops. After three days of ridicule, Rio's Mayor Luiz Paulo Conde relented and declared that the immorality law would no longer be enforced. "This is going to be the summer of the topless bather," Conde promised, despite grumbles from...
BEEF: Beef--injected with hormones STUNT: Topless in Seattle, the better to bare their convictions...
...these shows last in a cable universe crowded with pay-per-view, The Man Show's ubiquitous women on trampolines and a score of ways to see topless women without sitting through bad adventure plots? Probably not. Unless, of course, they star Pamela Anderson...
...front, Schor points out the warning label on the cover. Outlined in fluorescent yellow, it reads: "Due to mature content, parental consent suggested for readers under 18." The warning reflects the suggestiveness of the half-clothed models, and perhaps refers in large part to one photo of a topless girl. Above the label on the cover, an Abercrombie-outfitted, buff young man stares through thick black-rimmed glasses, looking decidedly misunderstood sipping from a mug advertising a budget travel agency. The reader is left to his or her own devices to assume that, after spending hundreds of dollars...