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...comedienne, retains her dignity through several assaults of whimsy that would shake a saint. In one dreary episode, she is conned into buying scanty costumes for the school band. In another, she sends a shy little nun off to help a pack of screaming girls shop for their first brassières. Director Ida Lupino lets Angels swing lowest when she introduces a lay teacher, clad in passionate purple, whose specialty is "interpretive movement." Gypsy Rose Lee plays the part with all the boop-de-doo phoniness a second-rate show deserves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Nuns Dimittis | 4/8/1966 | See Source »

...fantastic. As it was told, prostitutes had been provided for a panel of federal jurors trying a major case-and paid for by U.S. marshals. The judge had threatened to "get" the defendant. A U.S. marshal pranced about a hotel dressed in nothing but a woman's brassière and panties. It was fantastic, that is, until one knew the author of the plot, who is a pretty fantastic fellow himself: Teamster Boss James Riddle Hoffa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Hoffa's Hookers | 10/1/1965 | See Source »

...BANG! BRA-BANG! goes Ursula Andress, 29. And in about as fast a transition as anyone's emotions are ever likely to undergo, the hapless fellow is dead-gunned down by the twin pistols hidden in the girl's brassière. Playing a Jane Bond out to earn her diploma in legal killing from the Central World Government circa 2000 A.D., Ursula straps on the sexshooter and goes hunting for Marcello Mastroianni, 40, in a homicidal fantasy called The Tenth Victim, now being filmed in Rome. Studio technicians ad mit they're still trying to figure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 2, 1965 | 7/2/1965 | See Source »

...Tuxedo & Brassières. The bookkeeper for a Chicago tailoring firm said that Stratton once paid $1,400 in cash for four suits and a tuxedo; the defense pointed out that Stratton was preparing for his inauguration. Clerks from several women's stores testified that Mrs. Stratton and Stratton's two grown daughters made cash purchases totaling thousands of dollars, mostly for dresses, shoes and undergarments. When a defense attorney objected that "there is not a scintilla of evidence as to their use," Judge Will said gently: "Do you mean you don't know what a brassi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Illinois: The High Cost of Politics | 3/19/1965 | See Source »

...Brassières like Maidenform's nylon net ($4) and Vanity Fair's stretch band ($4) are every bit as rudimentary as Rudi's: they may get by splayed out on a department-store counter, but displayed-even on 100% synthetic mannequins-in show windows, they are likely to stop traffic, start riots, and end up as exhibits in night court. Even those with a bit more substance to them, like Bien Jolie's flowered-net version ($11) and Warner's "The Body" ($12.50), are sheer enough to read through, small print included...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: The Facts of the Matter | 3/19/1965 | See Source »

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