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Throughout her career, with the same diminutive voice and figure ("If I had a bosom," she once declared, "I could rule the world"), Julie Harris has been a world of women. In her first triumph 15 years ago, she was twelve-year-old Frankie in The Member of the Wedding. With a small voice issuing from a still smaller chest and her hair cropped as short as a boy's, she managed to convey a blossoming femininity, the seedling woman of passion and perception. She was a sentimental strumpet in I Am a Camera, a queen in Victoria Regina...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: In Lights It Spells Harris | 12/3/1965 | See Source »

Constant Clown. Barbara Harris plays it all in reverse. She not only has a bosom, she saucily displays it. As a constant nympho in Oh, Dad, Poor Dad, she nearly fell out of her blouse giggling, wiggling and winding around a virginal young man in a nocturnal round of seductio ad absurdum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: In Lights It Spells Harris | 12/3/1965 | See Source »

...results of permitting posts to be "bartered away for political purposes" are often astonishing. "We have had an ambassador in South America," he writes, "who imbibed so heavily that he fell flat on the embassy floor, an ambassador in Portugal who propelled whipped cream into a lady's bosom across the dinner table, an ambassador in The Netherlands who was known as 'Herman the Hormone' because of his propensity for pinching the behind of any girl within reach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Kind Words for Mr. Bastard | 10/1/1965 | See Source »

Bathtub Arrival. With her small hands and feet, widely admired bosom and spikelike false eyelashes, Suzy has the look of a pouter pigeon. The twice-divorced and now unmarried Texan, whose real name is Aileen Mehle, stands out at any party. She never misses a thing, she boasts, because of her powers of total recall. "I have the fastest eye in the house." But she never takes what she sees very seriously. "Social ites," she says, "kid each other, their way of life, their friends; and I kid the whole setup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Columnists: Kidding the Social Setup | 9/24/1965 | See Source »

...long ago she might have got by with illustrious bones, a rumor of a bosom, reliable cosmetics, and a stomach that could settle on Ry-Krisp and yoghurt, but fashions in fashion models change. These days the girl who can't perform a mean frug might just as well turn in her hatbox. It's a cinch that she will never make the scene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: The New Beat | 9/10/1965 | See Source »

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