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...held back both tears and hostilities. His "easy way out" was to limit his contribution to a few bridges of continuity-the rest of the show was a splice-up of some of his favorite vignettes from past seasons. There he was again as the bowlegged, barelegged (except for anklet socks) toreador fleeing a rampaging bull in a Madrid ring. Or replaying his "Now a message from Alka-Seltzer," which was unexpectedly punctuated by a belch from Jonathan Winters. Or sending Richard Nixon to the piano and leading Bea Lillie off with a fond pat on her backside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Paar's Last Tape | 7/2/1965 | See Source »

...TIME, April 12), added a Sylvia Porter-type column of financial advice from "Our Young Man in the City." A new "With It" page offers tips on how to achieve instant sophistication (among them: "barbaric feet for summer," festooned with a "slinky gold mesh snake's head anklet" or "a creepy gold mouse toe ring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newspapers: Sex, Sensation & Significance | 5/10/1963 | See Source »

...Atlantic; that I can tell you." Consort Magda Lupescu, whose given name the curious had discovered was Elena, whose body was taller and thinner than rumor whose hair was blonder than red and had never had a permanent, dazzled the populace with a chiffon blouse, outsize earrings. an anklet, white powder, orange lipstick,' blue eyeshadow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, May 19, 1941 | 5/19/1941 | See Source »

...green suit, two strands of pearls, many bangles and a slave anklet, 118 sinuous pounds of Mary Garden, Chicago diva, returned last week to the U. S. Newsgatherers ignored her wrinkles, flattered her appearance and she said goodness, yes, that was what came of going without dinners, especially gorgeous ones ("Lord, how I love good food!"); of not smoking or drinking; and of swimming daily in the Mediterranean, with no bathing suit and no company save two police dogs. She told her famed escape-from-a-shark story (TIME, Sept. 13), patted her bobbed hair and apropos of Maria Jeritza...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Ave | 11/1/1926 | See Source »

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