tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post317181458416294536..comments2024-03-28T02:29:37.413-05:00Comments on Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine: Childhood's End -- Arthur C. ClarkeAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02350478005243505108noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-5121462941953177512008-03-26T21:13:00.000-05:002008-03-26T21:13:00.000-05:00Here's another interesting SF prediction that came...Here's another interesting SF prediction that came true, concerning a sensational stunt on national TV by a female singer: <BR/><BR/>"It took some doing, I gather. A specially designed bra, and a frock built round it. Quite ordinary, not to say demure, when she went on camera to sing her little song. Then a clonk of scenery falling behind her -- [the singer's agent] paid twenty quid just for that -- round she whips, all startled like, and out it pops. The left breast, because it's bigger than the right, with the bra constructed for maximum upthrust once it was loose. And twenty million eyeballs snapped to attention."<BR/><BR/>Not Arthur C. Clarke, but John Christopher in PENDULUM (1968) -- 36 years before Janet Jackson's wardrobe malfunction during the 2004 Super Bowl halftime show.Fred Blosserhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07307848103704970189noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-85069117692554392132008-03-26T11:26:00.000-05:002008-03-26T11:26:00.000-05:00It hasn't been quite that long since I read the bo...It hasn't been quite that long since I read the book(only about forty years), but I have fond memories also. I may have to dig it out and try it again.Randy Johnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16627907086811387527noreply@blogger.com