Word: corset
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Silent Treatment. As he hobbled into his second week on crutches, the President continued to wear the small laced corset on his back. Most evenings he went for a brief, gingerly swim in the White House pool (heated to 87°) and relaxed on electric heating pads covered with moist towels. New treatment was introduced with the use of ultrasonic therapy. The silent sound waves were played across the President's back from a portable machine for 15 minutes every other day to ease tense muscles...
Studying such events, actuaries some years ago decided that Clark Gable was the best risk in films, Elizabeth Taylor the worst by a wide margin. Making Raintree County four years ago, she wore a tight, Kodiak sort of corset that induced a hyperventilation syndrome ($45,299). For minor illnesses in Giant and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, she cost Fireman's Fund some $75,000. And now Lloyd's and the other underwriters are trying to decide whether they will reinstate Cleopatra's coverage. If they do not, the picture may never be finished. Insurance...
...next few years, Dubuffet worked the back streets of Paris, painting little bistros and corset shops, jazz combos, and a host of men and women in the misery of routine (Woman Removing Her Chemise, Gallant Woman Removing Her Panties). There were also closeups of earth and paintings resembling graffiti, the rude scribblings found on walls throughout the ages. In 1944 Dubuffet got his first Paris show. Even for a city that had just been liberated, this was almost too much freedom to bear...
...February to remove a metal plate. Last rites were administered. But this time, after two weeks abed, recovery was rapid. Total time spent in the hospital or convalescing: seven months. Today, the only vestige of the spinal problem is that he still sleeps on a board, wears a light corset. Last week, at Kennedy's request, his two Manhattan physicians reported: "Your health is excellent...
...people threw off Puritanism like a corset, and expressed their relief in "dancing, singing, eating, drinking, swearing, gambling, blaspheming, whoring, cockfighting, dogfighting, bearbaiting, bull-baiting, horse-baiting bonfire-burning, gunpowder-exploding." At Charles's coronation, his health was drunk so often that the streets were full of vomiting citizens, and Diarist Samuel Pepys wrote that he was never so "foxed" in his life...