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...abortion-rights activists clashed with police as they tried to broadcast their message to tens of thousands of people gathered for the July 4th Boston Pops concert along the Charles River. In Minneapolis a few pro- choice protesters burning a flag were rushed by three waiters from a nearby topless bar. In Atlanta about 450 pro-choice activists carried to the state capitol a stack of coat hangers, a grisly symbol of the back-street butchery they predict if abortion is outlawed...
Glasnost cinema is good news for Soviet citizens, who go to the movies four times as often as Americans and ten times as often as the British. Today Soviets get to watch sexual barriers fall like dominoes in slow motion. Little Vera features a love scene -- 82 seconds of topless necking and a quick tickle under Vera's dress -- that has shot viewers' eyebrows up through their hairlines. By American cable-TV standards the episode might be tame, but in a culture as repressed erotically as it is politically, Little Vera is big news...
...parade marches on. Highlights on last week's tabloid shows ranged from a story on "the undercover Romeo," a drug informant who allegedly lured innocent women into dope deals, to an ogling visit to a topless coffee shop. Can't something be done, critics and concerned viewers cry, about such tasteless shows? Now a campaign against TV sleaze appears to be gathering steam. But the cure may be worse than the disease...
Inside, a topless brunette woman in a g-string moves to the sounds of Stevie Nicks, displaying her athletic body, and her buck-teeth when she smiles. Nicks's husky voice matches the dark, smoky, sleazy atmosphere of the club...
Chic Capri meantime invoked a 1970s ruling against excessive nudity to bar people from sauntering through its streets topless or wearing only a swimsuit. Other resorts welcome those who grin and bare it. Rimini, on the Adriatic, annually crowns Miss Golden Bottom, while Loano, on the Italian Riviera, chooses Miss Fantastic Breasts. In Agropoli, 60 miles south of Naples, a determined tourism director aims to convert his town of 15,000 into the "new capital of transgression." Promotional schemes include variety shows with bare-breasted show girls...