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...corn pone, mustard greens, salted-down possum belly, squirrel shanks, crow gizzards, and boiled toad. Her granddaughter Elly May resembles Al Capp's Daisy Mae from head to toes, notably in profile. She is a tomboy, but she somehow wears Levi's as if they were a bikini. Actress Donna Douglas is typecast in the part. A few years ago she was the best hot-pepper eater in Baywood, La., where she also played boys' football, pitched in softball, called and slopped hogs, milked cows, and walked through fields eating sugar cane. She can whistle through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: On the Cob | 11/30/1962 | See Source »

...nightclub, is not classic burlesque. Its bumps have been shock-absorbed into harmless thank -you-ma'ams, and its grinds are exceeding fine. But only a purist could carp: it is a spectacularly busty pageant, flashily costumed, dizzyingly aswarm with near-nude (pasties here and here, a twinkly bikini there) show girls. If it owes a greater debt to the New Frontier Hotel in Las Vegas than to Minsky's old National Winter Garden theater on Houston Street, that is the way Minsky wants it. The nearest thing to a striptease in the proceedings is a number...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Burlesque: This Must Still Be the Place | 11/30/1962 | See Source »

...notable instances, the filmmakers felt a need to tone down Author Fleming's unbuttoned imagination. In the book, the heroine is walking a beach nude with a knife-belt strapped about her when Bond first sees her. In the movie, Actress Ursula Andress fills a wet bikini as if she were going downwind behind twin spinnakers. In the book, the villainous Doctor No is buried alive inside a 20-ft. mound of bird droppings. In the movie, he is cleanly boiled in a nuclear reactor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies Abroad: No, No, A Thousand Times No | 10/19/1962 | See Source »

Awash up to her Plimsoll line in the Mediterranean, Brigitte Bardot, 27, was floating around lazily but spectacularly in a one-piece bikini and a leopard-spotted water mattress. Click! went a distant telescopic-lens camera, and France's sex kitten arched her back ever so cautiously. Her latest beau, Cinemactor Sami Frey, who has been a summer guest at her Saint-Tropez villa, recently blasted off another shutterbug with buckshot as he snapped away at BB from the rushes along the shore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aug. 10, 1962 | 8/10/1962 | See Source »

...opening night, guests wandered around the huge pool (where during daylight hours bikini-clad "starlets" would bring the indolent customer a drink or a cold cut) under the flickering light of a huge gold torch, which belched flames...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: Out of the Desert | 6/15/1962 | See Source »

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