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...other hand, there is a school that believes the female torso is already as stripped down as it can get this side of decency. Supporters of this view have decided to replace mere bareness with well-designed scantiness. Their favorite is the one-piece bathing suit. But if this summons up images of yesteryear's skirted models or even the tank suit, look again (see color pages). The one-piece advocates are using all kinds of current high-fashion tricks, including plunging necklines, ruffles, open sides and cutouts...
...Lascelles, the chief comic, who also devised some of the choreography. Mr. Lascelles, periodically strolling on stage wearing a floor-length black coat and carrying a tuba that he cannot play, looks like a banana waiting to be peeled. He also has a way of bunching up his entire torso into his breast, a trick he's likely to pull anytime, anywhere, and for no rational reason...
...Bleustein-Blanchet took a tentative step toward sex in an advertising campaign for Rosy brassieres. The original ad showed little more than a woman's torso, with the arms folded discreetly across the chest. But the campaign's success-sales of Rosy bras have increased fivefold-has convinced French admen that frankness can bring in the francs. As a result, their ads have been getting increasingly more daring. A recent Rosy ad, for example, pictures a woman wearing a lacy bra, but otherwise she is bare to well below the navel; partially visible behind...
...skirts. Bare midriffs are also fine by Mollie Parnis, who links together the bra tops with silk knots or a big ring. Donald Brooks adds demure long sleeves and a high neckline to focus more attention on his bare midriffs, which expose a good ten inches of tummy and torso...
...Whiteley stop there. Above his self-portrait erupt five flat thought balloons, containing a photo of a nude torso, a tube of oozing white oil paint, a fungoid dream landscape with a bit of highway, a montage of Hitler in a motorcade emoting into a zebra-striped speech bubble-and a question mark. The whole is obviously meant to depict the varied factors that Whiteley believes shaped his artistic sensibility; the balloons are also signs pointing to Whiteley's belief that life is a journey to be traveled and that it is dominated by the demonic force of history...