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...loses itself in so many internal contradictions one is tempted to call it Screwloose. The minister forbids his daughter to listen to rock, but he permits her to wear the clothes of a big-city hooker, a hairdo befitting a glitzy country songstress, 6 lbs. of Maybelline and no bra. The kids in Beaumont have been denied dancing for five years, yet they are as slick as the regulars on Soul Train. Gaffes like these were of little moment in Flashdance; its preposterous story was soft-focused into a modern fable. It matters here, where the young and the middleaged...
...woman, her back to the camera, is unblushingly and unmistakably nude. Slowly she begins to dress. At last she rises and turns to reveal-voilà!-a bra ($16) and panties ($9) by Berlei USA. So goes the latest milestone in the use of soft-tease hard sell: the first nude TV commercial in the U.S. The 30-second, $40,000 spot premiered last week on the cable USA Network and Cable Health Network, which together reach about 15 million subscribers. Starring in the eye-catching advertisement is Deborah Diehl, 25, a New York City actress whose previous appearances include...
...history's best-known advertising campaigns and most recurrent dreams. For more than 20 years the Maidenform model said, "I dreamed I went shopping [or fought a bull, or barged down the Nile] in my Maidenform bra." The ads, featuring a winsome lady wearing nothing above the waist but a bra, appeared in more than 70 countries, starting in 1949, and helped propel the privately held company to the No. 2 spot in the intimate-apparel industry (1982 sales: $125 million...
...audience in the U.S. and Europe had discovered Erté. Former Vogue Editor Diana Vreeland declared that no one in the 20th century had had a greater influence on fashion. Bar bra Streisand, Liza Minnelli and other Hollywood folk began collecting his original costume and scenic designs. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City has bought more than 200 of his drawings and paintings...
Elaine Johnson, golfer, after a shot hit a tree and landed in her bra: "I don't mind taking a two-stroke penalty, but I'll be damned if I'm going to play the ball where it lies...