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Word: volunteerist (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1982-1982
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...ruffle the models' clothes until someone devised a stiffener to make them lie flat. Unclothing was even more of a challenge in a more circumscribed age. When a director broke the modesty barrier by offering to pay nude models $10 a night, critics objected to this violation of volunteerist esprit de corps. Nowadays women and men of all ages are only too willing to bare all for Laguna. Indeed, a 1969 nude volunteer named Cathe Mennen is enshrined as a heroine of the pageant. While she posed in a statuary group of Pygmalion and Galatea, a pigeon mistook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: In Laguna Beach, a Living Louvre | 7/26/1982 | See Source »

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