Word: wantonness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Photographers find the new ads a highly specialized art form. Because the ads must appeal to women, the model must be healthily sexy but not voluptuous or wanton. Then the trick is to determine to a micrometer the line between tasteful appeal and tasteless eroticism. Photographers spend hours adjusting a fan to blow a bit of drapery across a bare breast at just the crucial angle, contrive ingenious arm arrangements in contortions few females would be likely to assume, vie with each other to find props (a white cat, a shower curtain) that will generally obscure what is being specifically...
Contraband luxury goods such as cosmetics, radios and lingerie, once burned in public bonfires because they "aroused wanton desires in the minds of the people," are now being sold openly in government commissaries-to foreigners who bring in needed capital. Alcohol tax rates, which were doubled by Park, have now been reduced because South Korea's breweries suffered an 80% slump in consumption in the first six months of this year...
...hustlers soon found themselves in road gangs, millionaires were stripped of their wealth, and frills like engagement rings, high weddings or elaborate funerals were forbidden. When goods continued to be smuggled in from Japan, Hong Kong and American PXs, General Park proclaimed: "The sight of luxury goods arouses wanton desires in the mind of the people. Burn them...
...pressure to nudge history along has been mounting in India during recent months. In the U.N. last week, India accused Portugal of "wanton attacks" on Indian shipping and fishermen, charged that "heavy reinforcements of Portuguese troops and mercenaries" have been rushed to Goa. In addition, said Nehru, frontier violations, "bad cases of torture," and political "repression" pose "a direct challenge to India." Portugal dismissed India's charges as "barefaced falsehoods," declared that frontier "violations" were simulated by Indian troops who sneaked across the border and came back firing toward their own lines...
...lack of it in his life; his urine contains a special additive that can attract a romantically inclined female at a range of 150 yards. And the unspayed female makes a rotten pet. When in heat (in some cats, as often as every two weeks), she becomes outrageously wanton, rolling about, rubbing herself suggestively on the furniture, and yelling for a mate. To stop this erotic behavior before it begins, Greer urges owners to take Tom or Tabby at an early age (about eight months) to the vet for alterations...