Word: nightclubs
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...First Amendment to the Constitution is based on the theory that "speech can rebut speech, propaganda will answer propaganda," and free debate will be a bulwark against tyranny. Just what Kelley Iser has to add to that debate is not clear at first glance. Kelley is a California nightclub dancer whose specialty was described by police as "30 seconds of wiggling around on her hands and knees with her breasts exposed." Yet the California Supreme Court has just ruled that Kelley's top less dance is entitled to First Amendment protection "like other forms of expression and communication...
...margin, the court reversed a lower court that had convicted Kelley of indecent exposure for her performance at a San Pablo, Calif., nightclub. "The First Amendment," said the justices, "cannot be constricted into a straitjacket of protection for political expression alone. It extends to all forms of communication, including the highest: the work of art." Moreover, the majority pointed out, "the dance is perhaps the earliest and most spontaneous mode of expressing emotion and dramatic feeling...
...Havana Libre: The rooms are still comfortable, the service is still good, and Havana still swings-a little. You will probably be treated to a nightclub, complete with daiquiris, a chorus line and an audience of gaping Eastern Europeans. The shopping downtown is better: in addition to cigars and rum, bargains include East German cameras and beautifully embroidered Czech peasant blouses. These may also be confiscated by U.S. customs on your return, but they can be regained on application to the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission, Washington...
...calculated aim is to create a state of sensory overload, a condition that audiences nowadays seem to want or need. Blackouts, slapstick, instant skits pinwheel before the eyes; chatter and sound effects collide in the ear. Other TV variety shows can be dropped intact onto a theater or nightclub stage, but Laugh-In would be impossible anywhere but on television. For one thing, each show is stitched together from about 350 snippets of video tape. Some of them-a flash of graffiti, for example, or a mugging face-last only an eighth of a second. Executive Producer George Schlatter calls...
Friday, September 27 THE DON RICKLES SHOW (ABC, 9-9:30 p.m.). "Mr. Warmth" plays the insulting court jester in a variation of his nightclub and talk-show routine. Premiere...