Word: bikini
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...defenses," might help.' Cold comfort there. "Is that why you called, Harold?" bleats his Yiddisha Mama. "You thought your mother needed a little filth thrown in her face all the way from France?" More cheer is shed by a sexy sylph in a mauve postage-stamp bikini. Miss Janus, delectably played by Brenda Smiley, has a Proust-like remembrance of flings past and an impish vein of insecurity: "I wish I could get to the state where I truly believed my behind was beautiful...
...hard-edge pop. And the reason the models looked so naked was that the merchandise they sported would take up no more space than there is inside a midget's vest pocket. The seasonal subject was summer beachwear, and the uniform of the day was the ever briefer bikini...
...terry-cloth people, for their part, were pushing the "hip-buckled bikini with the little-boy legs" (some little boy!). An ad for the Cole of California line tried to make you think of that tiny piece of Acrilan acrylic knit as a "sizzle of orange with hot pink." For "a certain kind of woman who'd like to retrace Gauguin's steps," Peck & Peck was arguing that you didn't have to go to Tahiti to wear an island-print bikini...
Lord & Taylor breathlessly advertised that they at last had their Emilio Pucci bikinis in stock, sold them out in two days. Ohrbach's looked over the situation, decided that on the ratio of bikini to flesh, what they'd better advertise was the tan ("A little green buys a lot of tan at Ohrbach's"). And Arnold Constable ran three lissome lovelies in bikinis with a message guaranteed to send every woman reader back to her diet tables: "A reward for every good girl who gave up malteds last March...
Never one to pass up a publicity play, Linda allowed her daughter to don bikini bottoms and pasties with dangling disks for a picture spread in Men, Italy's equivalent of Playboy. Romina, a slightly sullen girl who combines traces of baby fat with the dark good looks of her father, reacted like a real trouper; when the makeup man had difficulty applying the pasties, she said: "Hurry up, will you? I'm late for a cocktail party." In another instance, Linda rejected all the picture poses proposed by the German magazine Der Stern, finally...