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Word: unbuttoned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jones thinks that the only thing his women fans really want to unbutton is their emotions. "That's as far as it goes," he insists. "If I really went after a girl in the theater, I'm sure she'd run a mile." These days, some people find that hard to believe. At the Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas, Jones launched into / Want a Woman, and a chic brunette leaped atop a table and offered herself. Part of the act? Perhaps. Another woman tossed her room key onto the stage. If that was part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Entertainers: Ladies' Man | 7/11/1969 | See Source »

...hosts, generally in their twenties, have varied backgrounds: one hopes to be a graphic designer, another once taught ballroom dancing, a third studies by day for his Ph.D. Each must sign a pledge agreeing, among other things, not to unbutton his jacket or dance slower than the beat of the music. To Ryuji Kami jo, 27. a much sought after host at the Club Tokyo, the life of a male geisha is not all sake and cherry blossoms. Of the customers, he sighs: "One moment, they are full of sunshine, then the next, full of thunderstorms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan: Just a Gigolo-san | 8/23/1968 | See Source »

...becomes howlingly funny when the first auditioner (Martin Balsam) appears. Anxious for the part but puzzled by its demands, the actor agrees to become fatter or thinner, remove his toupee, shave his chest-anything. As the real test of his abilities becomes clear to him, he begins to unbutton his shorts with a what-the-hell bravado. But life's little irony is that the playwright has fled, being the sort of man who cannot bear a dirty joke, let alone cast a nude male...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Ticker-Tape Blizzard of Fun | 3/24/1967 | See Source »

...nips in at the waist, flares out slightly at the side with twin vents in the back. Padding squares off the shoulders. There are four buttons on the sleeve, and - a vestige from days when gentlemen rolled back their cuffs to duel or simply wash their hands - the buttons unbutton. The look of a custom-made Savile Row suit is unmistakable. So is its durability, mainly because of thousands of hand-stitched seams in the canvas foundations. For all its vaunted prestige, the suit's greatest virtue may actually be its price: even with a 21% import duty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: On the Savile Road | 12/30/1966 | See Source »

...particular sexual ethic but rather individual decision and individual responsibility. In the spring quarter we will initiate campaigns to make women's social regulations voluntary and to allow undergraduate women to live off-campus. The fastest-selling buttons at Stanford have been "If it moves, fondle it," "Unbutton," and "Make love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 25, 1966 | 3/25/1966 | See Source »

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