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...equivalent of New York's Greenwich Village or London's Soho, the facades of at least 1,000 clubs throw off all the colors of the rainbow. Inside, the thermostats seem to have been raised, not lowered; customers peel off their jackets, and even the bikini-clad B-girls perspire in the heat. At a restaurant on the Ginza, the headwaiter reports a more-frenzied-than-usual pace of drinking. "They drink as though this were their last big fling," he says, both gratified and concerned by the booming sales...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: In Tokyo, the Party Is Over | 12/31/1973 | See Source »

RAQUEL WELCH is the only miscast member of the company. She is asked to play a good actress, but Sheila is her opportunity to prove that she is not. The two scenes in which she is called upon to act, and not merely pose in a bikini on the sundeck, are painful to watch...

Author: By Lewis Clayton, | Title: A Maze of Missteps Don't Make a Mystery | 7/20/1973 | See Source »

...GIRL in a purple bikini stands on an old milk box, having an American flag painted on her belly by a man whose jacket proudly announces: COMPETITION PAINT BY PHILL-CHI-TOWN...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICAN SCENE: Auto Shows: They Love Speed | 3/19/1973 | See Source »

...jobs comparable to those that the Jews had in Russia, poor housing, inadequate cultural facilities and the easygoing permissiveness of life in modern secular Israel. Although most of the disenchanted emigrants are not religiously observant, they were shocked that a Jewish state would tolerate nudity in films and bikini-clad Sabra girls on beaches. They were also upset by the permissiveness of Israeli schools. Mamishvalov sums it up succinctly: "No discipline. Children shout. Teacher has skirts to here; boys in class look there. Teacher smokes. This is not education...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOVIET UNION: Reverse Diaspora | 2/5/1973 | See Source »

...Nicholson, 56, co-founder and former president of American International Pictures, which during the '50s and '60s earned healthy profits and abusive reviews with such mindless, minibudgeted films for the adolescent drive-in set as I Was a Teenage Werewolf and How to Stuff a Wild Bikini; following surgery for a brain tumor; in Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 25, 1972 | 12/25/1972 | See Source »

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