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...stand in a silver square and they gave me a lacrosse stick,i Gomes recollects. iIt rocked. I was getting paid eight bucks an hour to stand there and look popular. On one of the hottest days of the summer, they asked two girls to put on bikini tops and stand in the square. They were supposed to look like they were having fun.i But not all employees were blessed with Gomesis fortune, or his good looks. Gomes recalls that they sometimes hired iscrubby girls,i who often had trouble getting scheduled during peak shifts...
...relaxed summer beaches of Rio de Janeiro, nobody glances twice when a woman parades by in a microscopic bikini or wriggles out of her top to sunbathe. But last month pet-shop assistant Rosemeri da Costa, 34, was tanning herself topless on Recreio beach when a shadow fell across her towel. She looked up and saw a gang of policemen armed with truncheons standing over her. In a spasm of puritanism, the police had decided to enforce a 70-year-old law against immorality. They demanded that Da Costa slip back into her top. When she refused, the police dragged...
...harassing topless women in a city with one of the highest murder rates in the world? Protesters stormed Rio's legendary beaches of Copacabana and Ipanema. Women covered their breasts with placards that read DOWN WITH SEXISM, UP WITH PLEASURE, while men strutted along the shore wearing women's bikini tops. After three days of ridicule, Rio's Mayor Luiz Paulo Conde relented and declared that the immorality law would no longer be enforced. "This is going to be the summer of the topless bather," Conde promised, despite grumbles from Brazil's powerful Roman Catholic Church. "The human body...
...eyebrows, giving me the instant facelift I needed." Cosio is no pedestrian plucker; she often reshapes 50 brows a day at $50 a pop, and her clients include Courteney Cox and Susan Sarandon. Whether Cosio can write is a mystery, but no doubt Regan's hair colorist and bikini waxer are rooting...
...your values, your integrity." (Not bad advice, though it comes from an exfoliating foot cream.) San Francisco's BeneFit, a specialty store that began selling by catalog four years ago, is less earnest but just as zany. The company weighs in with Glamazon, a liquid bronzer that features a bikini-clad Jane swinging on a vine and an $18 jar of "Touch Me Then Try to Leave..." cream...