Word: zippered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this D.C. bus, here I was, wearing a pair of jeans whose zipper was broken, as well as a jacket that didn't quite fit, and looking just as objectionable as I possibly could. Perhaps, after all, streetfighting was a pretty good deal-at least, it allowed for an indulgence that even the new politics couldn't accommodate...
...Cover: a three-dimensional illustration by Dennis Wheeler. The work is a fig leaf with a zipper, revealing two cast members of Oh! Calcutta!, the latest and most explicit example of theater in the nude. To Wheeler, the three elements-the leaf of Eden, the ubiquitous modern mechanism, the stark young bodies -symbolize the erotic renaissance that is the subject of TIME'S story...
...costumes, by Marian Moore and Susie Marsh, go a long way toward salvaging some period sense, now suggesting an elegance rare to Ex productions. They are, however, undone by a zipper. The settings, credited to Mr. Hart, are downright tacky. I will remember for some time the bed-chamber of Charles II, prominently decorated with what I take to be his priceless white hat-rack...
...Tresemer, under Bruce Boucher's fluid direction, keep the tiny bubbles of action and mood coiling through the five short scenes. Mary Moss in particular is a streaming red-haired wine of a woman and it's worth the price of admission just to see her struggle with a zipper as she fits into a black dress...
Actually, in the 195 episodes of the serial so far, he has yet to solve a crime. Just when emergency strikes, the "fantastic feathered fighter" finds that his chicken suit has been lost by the cleaners or the zipper is stuck. During one flap, he accidentally glided through a closed window. "How do you do?" was his greeting. "I'm the wonderful white-winged warrior, and I think I'm bleeding to death." Of course, the police commissioner shrugs away the fact that since the coming of Chickenman, the "level of sin, debauchery and gambling" has increased. Good...