Word: offending
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Rent-a-suit has already spread to California, where the Los Angeles women's clothesmaker Smart Modes plans to initiate a similar operation. "One out of every five executives who thinks he is dressing for success, dresses to offend," says Author (Dress for Success) and Clothing Consultant John T. Molloy. "There is going to be a whole flurry of companies doing this...
...making Cruising, William Friedkin was asking for trouble. This detective melodrama has something to offend almost everyone: the plot concerns a string of sex murders, and the main setting is Manhattan's unsavory demimonde of sadomasochistic homosexual bars. Last summer, gay activists picketed Cruising's locations, charging that the film would stir anti-gay violence. Two weeks ago, a big theater chain threatened to cancel Cruising 's bookings on the grounds that the film merited an X rather than its official R rating. When the movie opens nationwide this week, more protests may follow. Certainly Cruising will...
...David A. Stockman (R-Mich.), another participant at the conference, spoke of a "new phenomenon" in presidential politics: the candidate who combines an obscure record with a chummy, non-committal image designed to offend no one. Stockman calls his prototype the "Bush/- Carter-type candidate...