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...mysteries. But Silverman, who was placed in charge of daytime programming at CBS when he was just 25, learned at an impressionable age to cater to the ladies. Typically, each Angels episode makes sure at least one co-star strips down to a bikini in the first ten minutes, the better to keep males in a state of gape-jawed passivity and expectation thereafter. But the show also spends a more-than-usual amount of the weekly $300,000 budget on things women enjoy observing-"fashions and hair styles," as one of its producers says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TV's Super Women | 11/22/1976 | See Source »

Right on, says Farrah Fawcett-Majors, the spectacularly maned frosted blonde who is first among equals as a sex object, seen braless on all the shows. She has even on occasion refused to don a bikini, not because she has an objection to the costume, but because she felt the only rationale for it was that they had "reached a quiet point in the script and needed my body to liven things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TV's Super Women | 11/22/1976 | See Source »

...matter that TV serials portray alcoholism and homosexuality or that bikini-clad models frolic in commercials for Caribbean resorts. By fiat of the Television Code Authority of the National Association of Broadcasters, TV commercials have long been forbidden to show beer and wine actually being consumed or undergarments stretched over living, quivering flesh. If viewers who did not want to watch earthy programs were assaulted by racy commercials, the broadcasters feared, the industry would face charges of offending community standards of good taste...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Showing It Like It Isn't | 10/18/1976 | See Source »

...fast-living young Frenchman by the name of Alain Gauthier and attended a party at his apartment, where he was heard to remark that it would be fun to take Theresa to the nearby beach resort of Pattaya. A few days later, on Oct. 18, Theresa's bikini-clad corpse was found at Pattaya. She had been drugged and buried in the sand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Innocents Abroad | 9/6/1976 | See Source »

...displays get risqué. Example: a series of windows at Los Angeles' May Co. department stores designed by Artist Peter Shyne, supposedly to "illustrate the possibilities of a California vacation." One window showed a beach scene in which a mannequin looking like Telly Savalas triumphantly brandished a bikini top belonging to a female mannequin who had her back discreetly turned. Another window showed a man dressed only in brief shorts at a sink and a woman in panties and bra. The implication was that they had just climbed out of bed and were packing for an illicit trip together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: Wild Windows | 7/19/1976 | See Source »

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