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...have joined the big smooth circus. But she is careful to keep stardom in perspective. She calls Beverly Hills a "happy experience. Plus they gave me the underwear my character wore. The furniture was what really slayed me, but I didn't get that. But I did get the bras." Nor does she make many distinctions among her three recent hits: "Was it Outrageous Ruthless People in Beverly Hills? The films have certainly indicated a direction to stay in. The whole package is a surprise: to be a box-office success hand in hand with Disney. A real shocker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bette Midler Steals Hollywood | 3/2/1987 | See Source »

...Underwear. The best shoppersget down to basics. Flaunt your spirit with TheCoop's Harvard boxer shorts or panties, $10 and $5respectively. For a lacier experience, try theirgarter belts, $12, teddies $15-28, or silkcamisole and tap pants, $66. Victoria's Secretssells lace panties, four for $12, and laceChristian Dior bras...

Author: By John C. Yoo, | Title: 26 Ways to Say `Merry Christmas' | 12/5/1986 | See Source »

...stifled in her mid-life soul. Every mundane moment is suddenly precious: breakfast with her parents and kid sister, singing "My Country 'Tis of Thee" in homeroom, catching Dick Clark on the old American Bandstand ("That man never ages!"). She dotes on her angora sweaters and her Iron- Maidenform bras, her mom's Rice Krispies cookies and tremulous advice ("Peggy, you know what a penis is -- stay away from it!"). She enjoys vamping Michael the beatnik, sharing a joint in a moonlit meadow as he howls out his Ginsbergian verse ("Sucking pods of bitterness/ In the madhouse of Doctor Dread...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Just a Dream, Just a Dream Peggy Sue Got Married | 10/13/1986 | See Source »

More intimate use of the alloy is made by Japan's Wacoal Corp., which last week began marketing its Memory Wire bras in the U.S. for about $30. The new product avoids a difficulty common to many regular wire bras, which can become twisted and more rigid after each washing. What next for the wonder metal? Says a manufacturer of the alloy: "A dented automobile fender that could be returned to new with a blow dryer sounds great, but it would cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to produce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Innovations: Memories Are Made of This | 10/6/1986 | See Source »

...Curtis plays a sleekly made aerobics instructor described by the movie's title. It is in another movie, Pumping Iron II: The Women, that Bushnell is definitively put in his place. In this semidocumentary about women body builders, one sees hormonal prodigies. The women are formidably developed. Their bikini bras look like preposterous Band-Aids attached to the nipples of a linebacker. An Australian woman in the movie, Bev Francis, has bulked herself up into a simulation of the Incredible Hulk. She clearly has the most daunting set of muscles in the Las Vegas body builders' competition that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Body Beautiful: Pumping Ironies | 6/17/1985 | See Source »

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