Once upon a time, women performed striptease that was about
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I will point out that someone did a striptease onstage.
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He will choose which moment in the striptease to immortalize.
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Mr. Habjan's Dance of the Seven Veils isn't a striptease.
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Can't you just see Harry doing a great striptease to "n.w.a."?
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The network's striptease set-up will, I suspect, hook most viewers.
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And it features an actual striptease, though a rather tame one.
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In some ways what's new about striptease now has less to do
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I've never been the best at anything, except for burlesque and striptease.
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A Heineken-quaffing Bond, sure, but also, Britain's lowkey GOAT striptease performer.
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It's a kind of striptease, no, of a life, especially sexual, erotic.
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The striptease to shirtlessness happened at the non-competitive gymnastics gala Thursday night.
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If you're still reeling over Betty Cooper's striptease on Riverdale, you're not alone.
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Met Gala: There were color, feathers, a striptease and a few severed heads.
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Met Gala: There were colors, feathers, a striptease and a few severed heads.
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But his bump-and-grind sashay brought conventions of female striptease to mind.
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I waded through their reports, and it was like watching a reluctant striptease.
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But her restrictive habits started again when she began filming 1996's Striptease.
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And Elle gets wasted at a party and does a striptease on a table.
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But the merrymaking, as the man's striptease made clear, was already in full swing.
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Pasties first made an appearance in the 1920s, in the worlds of burlesque and striptease.
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He's remembered for giving a striptease that made then-judge Paula Abdul and viewers swoon.
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We had studio visits from performance artist/pornographic model/striptease artiste/musician Cosey Fanni Tutti.
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Elon Musk did a dad-dance striptease on stage at Tesla&aposs new Shanghai Gigafactory.
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Isn't it great when daytime TV gives you a side of striptease with your morning coffee?
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Later, the pair had a pizza party with Team U.S.A. gymnast (and Olympic striptease master) Danell Leyva.
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Betty has to do a striptease to the sad song from Donnie Darko to join Jughead's gang?
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Ms. Culprit creates vibrant, large-scale paintings and mixed-media canvases depicting female dancers and striptease artists.
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I often get booked as a surprise for women that don't know how to deal with a striptease.
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He'd do striptease acts, which was ironic given what transpired as he unraveled in New York years later.
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The fans, most of us anyway, would rather just get the bracket without the drawn-out TV striptease.
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He fudged his whereabouts and biographical particulars even as he performed a striptease of his earnings and expenses.
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Cloverfield was a striptease of a film, hiding the monster then revealing bits of it in a peekaboo dance.
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He reenacts a dragged-up striptease for the audience, only to stop when his battleship is hit by enemy missiles.
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MB: And then the photo of her striptease ends up blown up as a huge decorative poster at the prom!
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James Weeks, who was running to be the party chairman, took to the stage in Orlando and performed a striptease.
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This is not a bawdy parody of a baking show, or even a striptease hidden behind a Food Network veneer.
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Here in America, there is evidence of involvement by Rajneesh followers in striptease, masturbation shows, and prostitution in San Francisco.
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The videos became bolder: Swaying in a bikini, she promised a striptease if Pakistan brought home a coveted cricket trophy.
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It was a sort of concentrated striptease, the girl completely unaware of the huge audience following her every little movement.
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"A handful of Magic Mike Live dancers proceeded to grind to a remix of the movie's most iconic striptease soundtrack: "Pony.
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Gone, too, are the exotic costumes, jewel-encrusted headpieces and striptease routines quoting Indonesian dance gestures that made Mata Hari famous.
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But the real highlight of "Damn Yankees" is definitely … A striptease that's as weird as it is sexy — maybe even more so?
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David Dilbeck in the 1996 film "Striptease," which flopped at the box office but earned him widespread praise for his comedic prowess.
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It was sort of the opposite of a striptease in a sex club, where everything revolves around the gaze of the audience.
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By the 1980s it was a fixture in striptease routines, and soon there were pole dancing competitions popping up all over the world.
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As they climbed three floors, he pointed out a gym, a communal jacuzzi used for "striptease" and a cluster of cubicles for sex.
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As with last year's "Lights Out," he proves a master of the flash-scare, a nifty choreographer of precipitous timing and striptease visuals.
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The cast also included some of his favorite actresses, like Tippi Hedren and Julie Newmar, while the socialite Patty Hearst did a striptease.
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At one point, a man did a striptease on stage until he sat before the audience -- and live television -- in nothing but his underwear.
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Performing a striptease to Nelly's "Hot in Herre" in front of socially conservative potential investors from Kansas City isn't what she had in mind.
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Even if I wanted to, the producers would never put someone on set who wasn't already a pro at improvised dirty talk and striptease.
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The funeral in Hebei featured burlesque dancers, the Red Rose Song and Dance Troupe, who did a striptease after the death of an elderly person.
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As performed by the prima ballerina Anna Tsygankova, Margaretha begins a kind of striptease, removing a series of flesh-colored veils until, seemingly, nothing remains.
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You can also use mirrors during foreplay: take turns watching each other perform oral sex, or do a sexy striptease that's visible from every angle.
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A couple hours in, a woman did a striptease to "Aqualung" by Jethro Tull (it was surprisingly sexy!) then I got called to the stage.
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We're told Kylie Jenner, Chris Brown and Teyana Taylor were among the celebs at the party ... which appeared to feature some kinda striptease show. #DirtyThirties
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In others, she explores—in pastel—what alien fashion might look like, or what an alien might look like if it was performing a striptease.
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Striptease, the 1996 film adaptation of Carl Hiaasen's novel about a plucky stripper battling dirty politicians and a slimy ex-husband, is not that memorable.
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Instead, the artist instructs the museum to hire dancers who perform a full striptease for visitors, speak the work's tombstone info, and then get dressed again.
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The film opens, naturally, with a striptease by one Barb Wire (then Pamela Anderson Lee), in a familiar position: at the center of the male gaze.
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Yet two thousand idiots per show yelp every time he opens his mouth, plucks a guitar string, or shakes his pelvis like any striptease babe in town.
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Several years ago, he met George Harrison Marks, the legendary photographer who started the nudie industry in the 1960s with his 8mm shorts and striptease magazine Kamera.
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More than 10 years before the show aired, Michael Ontkean (Sheriff Harry S. Truman) performs an on-ice striptease in George Roy Hill's hockey comedy Slap Shot.
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During the pop diva's #1 to Infinity residency concert in Las Vegas on Saturday, Chyna was invited to join Carey on stage for a very sexy striptease.
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Chances are when you you think of pole dancing, the mental picture you summon is this:Demi Moore trained for months before strutting her stuff in Striptease (1996).
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Nearly all of the enjoyment derived from shows like Westworld, which should never be binged, comes from the slow, striptease-y reveal of its twists and betrayals.
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Scattered across the UK are thousands of men with detailed profiles explaining exactly what they will and won't do—from fisting and caning to striptease and cuddling.
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Police said at the time that Daniels was arrested for allegedly violating a no-touch law during her striptease performance at the Sirens Strip Club in Columbus.
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In "How to Get Rich," which she co-wrote with Mr. Trump, she thanked Alain Bernardin, the owner of a famed Paris striptease saloon, the Crazy Horse.
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Her fame skyrocketed in March when she posted a video promising to do a striptease for the captain of the Pakistani cricket team if they won the championships.
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In fact, upon completing his assistant duties, his white-collared shirt was revealed to be a tear-away, and a striptease commenced in the middle of the office.
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She called herself a "one-woman army," often recording herself alone in her bedroom or sometimes pulling stunts like promising to striptease if Pakistan won a cricket match.
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Marrying age-appropriate humor — like a date-night striptease that does the opposite of resuscitate — with moments of gentle pathos, the movie delivers exactly what its poster promises.
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Joél Pérez ("Fun Home") begins a striptease and then continues it, miming splitting his skull and clambering out of his skin, which he then tosses to the crowd.
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"The others being sold were under-the-counter striptease reels, on 8mm home cinema reels that you'd run on your own projector in your back room," Vic says.
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But in this episode, she gets daring and does a striptease, pulling off the conservative dress her mother zipped her into and dancing in her slip and jewelry.
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The sign, says Yuichi Ohama, the spa's manager, is directed mainly at the gangsters who haunt the local area, a dense warren of brothels, cabaret bars and striptease clubs.
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Baloch rose to fame on social media with actions, such as promising to publish a striptease if Pakistan won a cricket match, which challenged conservative social norms in Pakistan.
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The thirst traps continued for their Mother's Day campaign, in which a total smokeshow Colonel Sanders ripped off his tank and performed a striptease while surrounded by "Chickendales" dancers.
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VIENNA — The most infamous part of Richard Strauss's 1905 opera "Salome" is the Dance of the Seven Veils, a striptease performed by a character meant to be just 16.
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" In Britain, she received its equivalent of the Academy Award, the Bafta, in 22001 for best foreign actress, for her role as Brigitte Bardot's striptease partner in "Viva Maria!
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Season 5 broke new ground in a lot of ways, but the most fun by far was the Season 4 talent show and C.O. Stratman's (Evan Hall) shamefully overlooked striptease.
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In January, Tesla opened a Gigafactory in Shanghai — Musk's dad-dance striptease during its opening notwithstanding — to add to its preexisting Gigafactories in Buffalo, New York, and Storey County, Nevada.
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But on Monday, the 53-year-old Striptease star pulled back the curtain on timeless beauty and major red carpet moments, explaining that she's actually missing her two front teeth.
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While undressing, Mann purportedly tantalized two leering guards with a striptease, lifting her skirt to expose her thigh to Josef Schillinger and Wilhelm Emmerich and seductively moving aside her blouse.
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" Gad is seen in the preview clip sporting a Trump-esque blonde wig and business suit while gyrating in a mock striptease to the Divinyls' 1990 hit, "I Touch Myself.
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Bush agreed, a decision that led to far greater intelligence cooperation between American and Israeli spy services — a "total mutual striptease" in the words of one of Olmert's former aides.
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She insisted that he dance "Courtesan and Crone," a semi-comical striptease about a woman's horror at her aging, a solo that no one but Ms. Halprin has performed before.
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Another woman — who'd recently given birth but didn't look like it because she practiced capoeira and was very strong and lithe — did a striptease in the classroom, which was incredibly brave.
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Like the appeal of getting your own private striptease or sexting, it's personal, just for you, and a pretty high level of intimacy for a bunch of pixels on a screen.
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Lady Gaga had performed a kind of high-art striptease, doffing gown after gown until she reached her fourth and final outfit, but already the next performance was set to begin.
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Whether Ava is a machine is never in question; the movie introduces the character in a reverse Hajime Sorayama striptease—a robot donning sexy-girl skin and then cute-girl clothes.
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Ms. Von Teese will sign her new Scandalwood fragrance ($165 for 1983 milliliters) and candle ($68), which features her heat-sensitive likeness performing a striptease as the scarlet glass jar heats up.
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In "The Apartment" (22004), Variety called an office-party faux striptease choreographed by Ms. Nelson "sexier than many in a strip joint," although the actress in the scene removed only her necklace.
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From his first venture, a striptease game show, he applied the formula even to serious political talk shows, said Alexander Stille, the author of "The Sack of Rome," about Mr. Berlusconi's reign.
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Yana Volfson, the beverage director at the Manhattan restaurant Cosme, uses Dolin blanc in her mezcal drink Striptease, and deploys Carpano Bianco, which is made in Italy, in the tequila drink Benny Blanco.
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Chyna, with a long, hot-pink wig and a noticeable baby bump, sat on the bed blindfolded as a male dancer performed a striptease and Carey teased her with a hot-pink feather.
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The film's director, David F. Sandberg, "proves a master of the flash-scare, a nifty choreographer of precipitous timing and striptease visuals," Jeannette Catsoulis wrote in her review for The New York Times.
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Some female disciples later worked as prostitutes and striptease artists in various cities in Europe and in San Francisco to earn their living and raise money to contribute to the new commune in Oregon.
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Who can focus on a Saudi arms deal when the Prime Minister's doing one-armed push-ups with veterans, participating in a charity striptease, or meeting a robot and, presumably, teaching it how to love?
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A key feature of the events was a "pleasure squad" of young, attractive women who would dance the cancan, sing American country songs or perform a striptease, according to the book and accounts by defectors.
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This week, prosecutors notified Mr. Handoko's family that he had been sentenced in absentia to two years and three months in prison, convicted of violating Indonesia's antipornography law, which includes a ban on striptease performances.
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Cover image: Adult-film actress Stephanie Clifford, also known as Stormy Daniels, poses for pictures at the end of her striptease show in Gossip Gentleman club in Long Island, New York, U.S., February 23, 2018.
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The ranch, which was dubbed Burt Reynolds Ranch and hosted filming for movies like B.L. Stryker, Smokey the Bandit II and Striptease, was sold to the Palm Beach County School District in 1999 for $3.8 million.
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Next up was Shelley the stripper who enthusiastically took to the 'stage' for her striptease, playing to the audience and ending up rolling on the floor naked in the spilled fake blood left from TG's set.
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It was Mr. Lester who was responsible for the regionally famous striptease act known as The Snake Lady, an unholy pretzel of human and reptilian flesh that titillated many a golfer, soldier and late-teenage boy.
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I often get a last-minute booking from a group of guys that want a striptease around 1 AM. Usually they've already had quite a lot to drink and are having trouble sitting upright in their chairs.
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A museum docent described Open Plan as Chief Curator Scott Rothkopf's desire to present "a striptease of the building," highlighting the supposed transparency between public and private spaces that architect Renzo Piano intended for the entire structure.
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Her big number, "Whatever Lola Wants (Lola Gets)," when she performs a striptease in the baseball locker room, became an instant classic, a routine that future dancers would study for its fine line between seduction and humor.
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"One of the reasons why fauxcest porn tends to be more popular with women is it has more of a storyline than your typical porn that shows a striptease and then goes right into the action," he continues.
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All things considered, would you really go in for a public striptease at a function you are attending with your wife—just assuming you can get away with a quick thrust or two while she's gone to the bathroom?
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We had been informed we could interrupt the striptease at any time, and indeed the show — like the Neo-Futurists' best-known work, "Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind" — mixes scripted material with improvisation and audience participation.
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Porn star Stormy Daniels plans to do a striptease performance Thursday night in the Columbus, Ohio, area, where she was arrested by police earlier the same day on charges that were later quickly dropped by prosecutors, her lawyer said.
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Though he danced alongside the show's male entertainers to striptease classics like Justin Timberlake's "Sexy Back," Ginuwine's "Pony," 50 Cent's "In Da Club," and Right Said Fred's "I'm Too Sexy," the star of Jon & Kate Plus 8 didn't actually strip.
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At a party for the just-released F.P. (Skeet Ulrich), Ms. Cooper took to the stage of the Whyte Wyrm to perform a very steamy striptease to Gary Jules' cover of "Mad World," in order to be initiated into the Southside Serpents.
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" Morgan said the former players want the court to order the NCAA to reinstate the 2013 national championship to make a public declaration that the players "did not engage in striptease dances, prostitution and tipping of strippers as implied by the Defendant (NCAA).
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Millay finishes the poem fairly quickly — she's briefly stuck on line 107, but hey, it rains, and she's off again — so she spends the rest of the first act engaged in what one of her biographers called an "epistolary striptease" with its editor.
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It's impossible not to view the parochial-school girls — wearing tube tops, smoking, gawping at a friend applying lipstick — as an offshoot of the raw "Carnival Strippers," Ms. Meiselas's breakthrough project, for which she followed a traveling striptease show through New England.
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At one point, he walks through his London apartment in a casual striptease, removing his T-shirt, then his underwear, his watch, his glasses, and his gold necklace, before taking a shower, with a ring of water jets hissing over his flesh.
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"When I was making Striptease, for breakfast I would measure out a half cup of oatmeal and prepare it with water, then for the rest of the day I would have only protein and some vegetables — and that was it," she said.
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Case in point being Hannah Wilke's "Through the Large Glass" (1976), a work in which artist inserts herself performing an iconic striptease in and around Marcel Duchamp's "The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors" (1915-1923) at the Philadelphia Museum of Modern Art.
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Denise Truscello/WireImage Related Video: VIDEO: Watch Mariah Carey and Billionaire Boyfriend James Packer Make Their Red Carpet Debut Also on Saturday, Carey performed at her #1 to Infinity residency concert, inviting pregnant Blac Chyna onstage for a sexy striptease from one of her dancers.
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In another universe, a public striptease from an alleged former mistress of the president of the United States would have been a major event, drawing throngs of people eager to celebrate her courage, or judge her sternly for bringing shame to the nation's highest office.
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With so many exotic dancing spaces that cater to men, we wanted to meet with the women of City of Doms, a striptease cruise that features both femme and aggressive dancers, to see what exotic dancing looks like when it caters to lesbian women.
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Nahia Vigorosa (the dancers all use stage names) brings raw power and projection to "Lay Laser Lay," a solo number on a rotating wheel; in "Striptease-Moi," Daizy Blu and Lolita Kiss-Curl recreate a teasing, gender-bending encounter, with one dressed as a man.
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Narcissister attributes her fixation on biological and sexual imagery — a 2013 profile in The New York Times cited a "reverse striptease" in which she pulled her clothes out of her orifices — to her mother, who suffered heart valve scarring as a result of rheumatic fever.
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LiveJasmin calls this the "girlfriend package," because they train their camgirls to not only offer private, erotic shows—anything from a striptease to masturbating with vibrators controlled remotely by the customer—but also conversations and advice on life, love, or whatever might be weighing on someone's mind.
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Mr. Miller set off on a patriotic semi-striptease before the editor of the student newspaper, according to the editor, Ari Rosmarin, theatrically removing a button-down to reveal an American flag T-shirt in protest of an article he found inconsistent with the national interest.
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He kicked off his appearance at the party with a speech, which began with a minor striptease: He tore off a bulletproof vest, revealing a tight-fitting T-shirt emblazoned with a rainbow Uzi and the slogan "we shoot back" (Milo is gay, and fairly militant about it).
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Art Review Here comes Johnny Yen again With the liquor and drugs And the flesh machine He's gonna do another striptease So sang Iggy Pop in "Lust for Life" (1977), a song he wrote with David Bowie that became an underground anthem for the post-Nixon, post-Vietnam era.
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Qandeel Baloch was called "Pakistan's Kim Kardashian," the country's first social media star — a figure of intense fascination and outrage, adored and reviled for posting videos of herself half undressed in bed, mocking mullahs and promising to perform a striptease for her viewers if Pakistan's cricket team won a match.
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Sited outside of the main entry to the exhibition, in its own little cavern, Wilke's striptease at the Philadelphia Museum of Art next to Marcel Duchamp's "The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (The Large Glass)" (1915-783) enacts the exhibition's title as women watch men in the room watching Wilke undress.
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At various points in her 38-year-long career, she has invited people to sleep in her bed ("The Sleepers"), posed as a stripper ("The Striptease"), secretly followed a man she'd met once through the streets of Venice ("Suite Vénitienne") and worked as a hotel chambermaid, documenting the belongings of guests ("The Hotel").
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Nothing's wrong, per se, I'm just wondering wherefore came the dramatic tonal shifts, or the characters acting like they woke up not knowing who they are, or that time it had a teenager do a striptease to that song from Donnie Darko that makes it feel like it's raining even when it's not.
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From her days as a soap opera actress on General Hospital, to her star turn in films like St. Elmo's Fire and Ghost, the latter of which garnered her a Golden Globe nomination, and even Striptease which though it got mixed reviews at the time made her the highest-paid actress in film history.
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Although the show overall is grouped into four categories, its recurring images and subsets of meanings, such as those associated with the Wilke/ORLAN striptease, are woven through the exhibition with an almost Pynchonian sense of parallelism and coincidence (an impression underscored by the installation's open-plan design, in which one section subtly informs the next).
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MAN ACCUSED OF STEALING SODA AT FAST FOOD RESTAURANT BEFORE STARTING FIGHT, GETTING TASED James Dylan Jordan, a 24-year-old restaurant patron from nearby Dunedin, was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct after he drunkenly approached a couple of Kobe diners last Sunday night and offered them an impromptu striptease, The Tampa Bay Times reported.
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In the photographs, Mr. Ojo enacts his meta striptease personally: He covers his eyes with his hand; he poses in a wig and in a dress, but turns away from the camera; and finally, in an image called "Silver (Belgium)," he shows his face in an unflatteringly candid selfie being kissed by an older white lover.
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It's a sports movie about the economic malaise and widening rich-poor gap of the 70s, the resulting cultural frustration that leads to a blood thirst for violent entertainment, and makes a fairly bold statement with the Ned Braden striptease scene by criticizing the pandering to fans by the sport through the commodification of athletes and their bodies.
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The company made a four-minute VR short starring Danny DeVito and other cast members of the FX sitcom "Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia," which took viewers along a ride on a smoke-filled motorcycle stunt — or allowed them to swivel in another direction to watch a scantily clad young woman who stopped just short of a doing a striptease.
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ORLAN's striptease shoots an arrow from the sacred to the profane, a full unmasking of Bernini's barely disguised eroticism, while Wilke's performance is more ambiguous: her transformation from a Roman goddess to a transgendered Christ is too pointed to be unadulterated fun and too joyful for calculated blasphemy; either way, the apparent transition from paganism to Christianity occurs without the artist placing a value judgment on either.
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Back in October, Melania TrumpMelania TrumpEx-Melania Trump adviser raised concerns of excessive inauguration spending weeks before events: CNN The Hill's Morning Report - Trump moves green cards, citizenship away from poor, low-skilled White House seeks volunteers, musicians for Christmas celebrations MORE's spokeswoman, Stephanie Grisham, called for a T.I. boycott after he posted a video of a woman resembling the first lady performing a striptease in the Oval Office.
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Adult-film actress Stormy Daniels finally brought her striptease act to Washington, D.C., on Monday night, performing just minutes before President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE revealed his latest nomination to the Supreme Court.
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First lady Melania TrumpMelania TrumpEx-Melania Trump adviser raised concerns of excessive inauguration spending weeks before events: CNN The Hill's Morning Report - Trump moves green cards, citizenship away from poor, low-skilled White House seeks volunteers, musicians for Christmas celebrations MORE's spokeswoman, Stephanie Grisham, is calling for a boycott of rapper T.I. after he posted a video that includes a woman who looks like Trump performing a striptease in the Oval Office.
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Uncannily, the French artist ORLAN, in 19813-75, did a similar photo grid, "Occasional Striptease with Trousseau Sheets," consisting of 18 self-portraits, at first costumed like Gian Lorenzo Bernini's Saint Teresa, madonna-like, suckling a swaddled bundle of fabric, but by the fifteenth shot she's not dressed at all, à la Botticelli's Venus, with the final image simply the pile of sheets on the floor, as if she had ascended into heaven or melted into the earth.
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Mr. Porter's only real competition in the theater of arrivals was Lady Gaga, a co-host, whose Brandon Maxwell-designed four-in-one striptease from giant fuchsia gown to black silver screen sheath to hot pink lady to undies covered in 7,200 Swarovski crystals, was, ironically, one of the subtler and more subversive takes on camp of the night — a takedown of the act of costume dressing itself, and the expectations now attached to this particular event.
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Here's Michelle Stanek with a beautifully choreographed, sensual jungle-themed routine:Here's one of my all-time favorites: a "vertical tango" that won the gold medal at the 2010 Festival Mondial du Cirque de Demain in Paris:Finally, we gotta give the guys a chance to show their stuff, so here's Australian acrobat Hamish McCann (one-half of acrobatic duo The English Gents) with his late-night cabaret pole routine, paying winking homage both to striptease and to Singing in the Rain.
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And while there is little doubt that the actor, who died Thursday at the age of 82, earned himself a fixed place in the entertainment firmament with a long career that — begun in television's early days — brought him mainstream success as a half-Comanche blacksmith on the series "Gunsmoke" and later as the title character on the clunky police drama "Dan August"; acting cred for his breakout role in the 1972 film "Deliverance"; and an Oscar nomination for his turn in Paul Thomas Anderson's 1997 "Boogie Nights," it was with his 1972 striptease for Cosmopolitan that he effected true cultural change.
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Word of the Day noun: a theatrical entertainment of broad and earthy humor; consists of comic skits and short turns (and sometimes striptease) noun: a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way verb: make a parody of adjective: relating to or characteristic of burlesque _________ The word burlesque has appeared in six New York Times articles in the past year, including on March 22 in the obituary "Chuck Barris, Producer and Personality of 'Gong Show' Fame, Dies at 87" by Neil Genzlinger: The performers, who were often terrible, would be allowed to go on until one of the judges couldn't stand it anymore and sounded a gong, putting an end to the spectacle.
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