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Books and women's clothing departments experience the greatest revenue loss. "It's common at the end of the day to find two or three old bras in the women's dressing rooms--someone takes off their old one, puts on th4e new one and walks out." Argeros said...
Once again last week, Brazil was at the brink. Part of its enormous $90 billion foreign debt was coming due, and the country had no way to pay. A team of tightfisted negotiators from the International Monetary Fund was in the capital city of Brasília demanding that in exchange for new loans the government had to curb its spending and cool inflation, which reached an annual rate of 180% during the first half of the year. Meanwhile, Brazilians, incensed by austerity measures already taken, were striking and taking to the streets...
...that he might have liked a little "more sex" in the film. "In a theatrical you might get away with more skin than this. There are some scenes in dorms when I would have liked to have had more, but the networks don't want girls in panties or bras," he said with a straight face...
...faction of young women threw their underwear into an Atlantic City, N.J., garbage can, attempting some clumsy metaphorical gesture, and grabbed headlines, air time and a disproportionate share of posterity. If "libbers" were the dreary drones of the movement, "bra burners" were the lacy lunatic fringe. (A note: no bras were actually burned that day. Not a single flame was lighted, not in any sense.) "Bra burners" was a convenient, slightly comic way of dismissing demands and resisting confrontations that had been deferred too long. Those women were a curiosity and thus a comfort to the opposition...
More bad news for Michelle Triola Marvin, 46. In July, the former live-in mate of Actor Lee Marvin, 57, was fined and placed on probation for shoplifting some bras and a sweater from a Beverly Hills store. Then last week the California Court of Appeal reversed the landmark 1979 Los Angeles Superior Court decision that ordered Marvin to ante up $104,000 in palimony-equivalent to $1,000 a week for two years, the most that Triola, who now describes herself as a public relations agent, had made in her career as a lounge singer. The appeals court upheld...