Jessica Biel See-Through

Outtakes from a 2017 photoshoot.

2 thoughts on “Jessica Biel See-Through

  1. This photo is from 2017, and it is now 2020. That now seems like nothing to me. I remember when the three years from 1967 to 1970 seemed huge to me. I went from childhood to puberty, elementary school to junior high (“middle school”? What the heck is that?), LBJ went away and we got Nixon, men landed on the moon, hippies began to fade away, and so did the word “groovy”, and so on. I decided that anything before 1967 was old, and everything after was new.

    Now I realize that a lot of the change was in me, and also that I was paying a lot more attention to the world around me back then. Having to be around a lot of other people in school helped with that. Sometimes I wonder if that 3-4 years was really any more action packed than any other period in semi-peacetime American history, or if it really was a time of great change, like 1929-1932.

    Anyway, Jessica Biel still seems to have a great body. Exercise and diet have made great strides in 50 years. But the, what has not, except the intelligence of the American electorate? THAT seems to have fallen off a cliff. But maybe that’s just me being old and cranky. (Still – Trump???!!!)

    1. It only took one summer to create two decades worth of social change. I went to college in the autumn of 1966 and it was still basically the Eisenhower years: we had to sign in and out of the dorms every time we stepped outside. Many guys wore crew cuts, but even the others had well-groomed hair. (Brylcreem – a little dab’ll do ya.) Guys wore suits to class. No women or alcohol were allowed in our rooms. We were allowed radios, but no TVs! Lights out at 11 on school nights!

      Then there was the summer of love.

      Then there were the campus riots.

      By December of 1967, after a couple of months of riots and occupying the dean’s office, the entire campus was wide open. We were free to come and go as we pleased. People were smoking dope and making whoopee in their dorm rooms. Communal areas were noisy through the night. Dorm parties, even official “mixers,” included booze (the drinking age was 18 then). Guys wore long hair. Dress was always casual. When spring arrived, men were shirtless and women sunbathed topless on hot days.

      All that happened in just 15 months, and really just about 6 months – in the second half of 1967. What we now know as “the sixties” – sex, drugs, protests, hippies, “acid, amnesty and abortion” – the new youth subculture – happened almost overnight. The JFK assassination was a harbinger of change, but “the sixties,” as we now envision them, were really 1967-1974, beginning with the Summer of Love and ending with Nixon’s resignation. Before that, it was still the world of our parents; it was still the world pictured in Happy Days.

      So, to your point, 1967 to 1970 was truly a long, long time in terms of cultural change – probably longer than the period from 1946-1966.

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