Playboy After Hours

May, 1984

Gill of My DreamsBust 'Em in the Chops Department: John Barth III, an artist with vision, unveiled a pair of 25-foot-tall papiermâché mermaid sculptures at the gates to the upcoming world's fair in New Orleans. Each sports a set of four-foot-wide bare breasts--a fact that was apparently much too much for some New Orleanians to handle. A public outcry for Z cups of the sea ensued, but Barth steadfastly refused to cover the produce, stating, "I'm ready to fight in the street for those breasts...