Word: bikinied
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unlikely flecks on the map as Kwajalein, Eniwetok, Saipan, Tinian and Peleliu. The Enola Gay roared off from Tinian to drop the A-bomb on Hiroshima; years later the shock waves of the world's first H-bomb tests rolled out from Micronesia, denuding the little atolls of Bikini and Eniwetok. Today, Nike X antiballistic missiles zoom up from Kwajalein in test interceptions, and Atlas and Titan missiles from California end their long trial runs with gigantic splashes in the Kwajalein lagoon...
...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...