Word: toplessness
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What's Topless in Italian? It must decide, for example, whether to include peculiarly Italian uses of English words. Sexy is in conversational use in Italy but implies heights of nubility far beyond the English meaning. A box is a garage for such fast sports cars as spyders, which is a corruption of speeder. A pullman is a long-distance bus; water is short for water closet. Some phrases have been adopted intact, such as strip tease, baby doll, Latin lover and jet set. Topless, fortunately, brings the same vision to Italian men as to Americans...
...insist on being what Carlyle called the only "clothed animal," but defining "public decency" is among the law's most hopeless chores. Thus in Caracas last summer, a clever cop arrested a topless-bathing-suit wearer simply for not carrying identification papers. But in Cannes, another cop could think of no such evasive tactic when he spotted Claudine Durand, 21, on the beach. Barebreasted, the pretty Parisian gym teacher was playing pingpong before fascinated spectators...
...Johannesburg model. Other women protest that a bra holster makes them appear top-heavy on the portside. To which Britain's staid Tailor & Cutter added archly: "A couple of hand grenades would seem more esthetic." Joubert and Taylor are unworried. They have nothing to fear but the topless dress...
...also admire his avoiding the traditional Poonie embarrassment--parodies that read like the real thing. Not that his parody succeeds, but Trow has his moments. He advises Penny Pig. "Just once, just once try something JUST A LITTLE different. Try, for instance, wearing one of those divine new topless bathing suits to work. This will force you to do something with that bosom of yours. Trying painting them green, to match your earrings, of course." If you've read Gurley Brown, that is funny...
...politicians whose place in society lies "somewhere between the dead body of a harlot and a donkey's tail." To "let loose a creative furor," the hungries last summer sent every leading Calcutta citizen-from police commissioner to wealthy spinsters-engraved, four-letter-worded invitations for a topless bathing suit contest...