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** In 1974, a man named [[w:Robert Opel|Robert Opel]] managed to get backstage at the [[Academy Award]]s and ran nude across the stage behind actor [[David Niven]] as he was about to introduce [[Elizabeth Taylor]]. Despite Niven's quip, quoted at the top of the page, Opel briefly became a celebrity and he was even ''hired'' to streak at a Hollywood party on at least one occasion. In 1976 he even ran for President of the United States, and used the slogans "Nothing to Hide" and "Not Just Another [[Richard Nixon|Crooked Dick]]".
* Beautifully [[Inverted Trope|inverted]] in June 2009 when a [http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/blog/2009/jun/14/naked-rugby-new-zealand fully-clothed person] ran across the field at an annual naked rugby game in New Zealand.
* The streaking fad prompted the birth of new tradition at [[Ivy League|Princeton University]], the [https://princetoniana.princeton.edu/traditions/past/nude-olympics Nude Olympics]. For over twenty-five years starting in the early 1970s, the first snow of the school year was celebrated by a crowd of nude sophomores playing at various sports in the courtyard of Holder Hall. It ended in 1999 when the University, which had up until then turned a blind eye to the practice, explicitly banned it in the wake of a particularly rowdy instance that resulted in injuries and alcohol poisoning.
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