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Talk about double-entendre. For the big-production opening and closing numbers of Cinemactress Shirley Mac-Laine's television special, the Bluebells from Paris' famed Lido nightclub were called upon to dance two almost identical versions. Avec bras for U.S. television, a CBS special to be aired May 20. But then, performing before a sophisticated audience at the Lido that included Monaco's Princess Caroline and le Tout-Paris, the chorus danced the same routines sans bras for a later broadcast on European television. Vive les différences...
...judges, she learns, may frown on her droopy right shoulder. At J.C. Penney's, Christine makes for the dressing room with a slinky green gown. She beckons Charlotte for a second opinion, her ex pression uncertain, one arm modestly shielding the bodice. "My mom used to buy me bras that were too big," she mourns. "She said I'd grow into them. I didn...
...current selection. The low attendance is a shame, because even if the play--Frank Gilroy's Pulitzer Prize-winning The Subject Was Roses -- is pretty poor, it's still the best piece of theater to cross the Pudding stage in many a year. And only the women wear bras...
Would more television viewers prefer a program in which a) three beautiful young women solve crimes, unencumbered by bras, b) two handsome young cops solve crimes, unencumbered by civil liberties, or c) three not-so-young and not-so-handsome reporters solve crimes, encumbered by a camera crew...
...institutions have been so determinedly middle class as Marks & Spencer. The company's 254 U.K. department stores, which constitute the country's largest retail chain, sell little that is fashionable or chic; instead, their mainstay is lines of inexpensive and respectably dull (though high quality) sweaters, shirts, bras and lingerie. This value-for-money formula has paid off handsomely: M & S's 14 million weekly shoppers give it annual revenues of $1.9 billion and profits of $184 million, both more than four times those of its largest competitor, British Home Stores. But M & S has so saturated...