Word: string
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Elise on the cut-off top of a 55-gal. oil drum? Step right up. A conga drummer with a silver earring in one nostril and a red gem in the other, or a classical guitarist in top hat, tails and tennis shoes? Right this way. String quartets, punk rockers, brass quintets, bagpipers, country crooners, dixieland stompers, ad hoc duos of every string, woodwind and percussive persuasion? Just around the corner...
Fourteen days and 13 plane trips later, they would pronounce their experiences "Çavaut le voyage"- It's worth the trip. Wearing Western string ties, tractor caps, Grand Canyon sweat shirts, Navajo necklaces and Mickey Mouse T shirts, they would flourish a Gallic gesture: thumbs...
PROPHETIC SCENARIOS fleshed out into popular bestsellers share one common flaw--they invariably prove wrong. To his credit, General Sir John Hackett, a former NATO army group commander with a string of letters dangling from his double-titled name, recognizes this...
...begins with Guy Garrett, 24, a former construction worker who parades onstage dressed in a white satin vest and glittery pants. Gyrating to the blast of disco music, he invites women to help him unzip, and for a close he allows a giggling fan to rip off his G string. Unadorned, he leaps into the audience for one last strut, hugging and kissing customers and getting goosed in return...
...dancers themselves, the rewards are as much psychic as financial. "It's an ego trip for everybody," claims Stripper Garrett, who makes $600 a week, excluding the tips that women stuff into his G string. "It's hard later to put yourself back in the world with everyone else." There is, of course, the occasional occupational hazard: late last June, for example, Sexy Rexy, one of Freddy's Playboys, moved so well that an excited patron ripped off his bikini. An on-duty policewoman happened to be in the audience, and Rexy was subsequently arrested for indecent...