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...there are others who must be watched as they pack their bags and take off. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Everett, for example, "more informally, Bob and Chiquita. They'll be in New York shortly for two or three weeks, then hurry back to Madrid for the shooting. Well, bang-bang. Or, as Truman Capote would say, bing-bing...
...wacky movie called The Tenth Victim. It opens in a weird, cubistic New York nightclub, where Ursula is bumping, grinding and stripping down to her glittering silver and green bikini. A Chinese brandishing a .45 automatic rushes at her, but Ursula is the fastest bra in town. Bang-bang, she has fired her twin pistols, whose small round muzzles protrude from her brassiere like iron nipples. As the Chinese slumps, Ursula coolly bends her head to blow the smoke away. Then off she goes in hot pursuit across New York, around Rome's Colosseum and Ostia beach...
...Though not extraordinary detective work, the series has got the city up in arms. Sure, the Times ran an article now and then on bad conditions, but the Herald Tribune runs them bang-bang every day, and that's what does...
Author Fleming calls this "the bang-bang kisskiss formula." But it takes more than this to account for the undisputed eminence of James Bond as the best-known wearer of a shoulder holster in print. One explanation is Bond's universal expertise. His man-of-the-worldsmanship is so explicit that his fans' fantasies have a rich and varied diet to feed on. His cigarettes, with their three distinctive gold rings (a considerable security risk), are blended for him of a Balkan tobacco mixture by Morlands of Grosvenor Street. For breakfast: "The single...
...blonde, blue-eyed Columnist Edwards was as sassy as she could be for Lord Beaverbrook's bustling Daily Express (circ. 4,084,603). Her weekly 8-in. column grew to a half page as she worked over tempting targets, from Labor's formidable Dr. Edith Summerskill ("Flossie bang-bang") to Queen Elizabeth; she once ran a picture showing the rumpled derriere of the Queen's gown, cattily commented that wrinkleproof fabric evidently was unknown at Buckingham Palace. Drawn by Anne's sharp, sure feline touch, women formed fully 46% of the Daily Express...