Word: coyness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WOODSTOCK, N.Y., Woodstock Playhouse: Little Mary Sunshine (coy heroine) is threatened (egads) with foreclosure (hiss), but (just in time) her hero comes to the rescue. ANDOVER, N.J., Gristmill Musical Playhouse: Damn Yankees still keeps bringing them in even though the real-life Yankees seem to have gone to the devil...
Seventeen features pubescent models and a coy vocabulary. With a little effort, the magazine contends, any ugly duckling can end up with a "dream dress," a "dream complexion," a "dream date." In the language of the trade, Seventeen is a "how-to" magazine; it tells how to cook shish kebab, how to jazz up a bedroom, how to avoid going too far with a boy friend...
...fewer than 20 actresses with established reputations have appeared in various stages of undrape in various men's magazines, most notably Playboy. Among them: Carroll Baker, Jane Fonda, Carol Lynley, Elsa Martinelli, Shirley MacLaine, Kim Novak, Hike Sommer, Susan Strasberg, Liz Taylor and Susannah York. Some were in coy poses, some in semi-erotic, some had a phony "naughty-naughty" look in their eyes. The current Playboy shucks all that in favor of an actress whose view of nudity is that if it's classic, it's beautiful, even in Kodachrome. She is Ursula Andress, the girl...
What they see is a trim, agreeable fellow whose all-American good looks at 39 are just this side of boyish, whose doubletakes are this side of coy, and whose laughter and breakups are infectious. He likes to start slowly with an easygoing topical monologue, maybe kidding the Mets ("The only team that has to fight back from a three-run lead"), or poking fun at the New York World's Fair's doldrums ("They've got a belly dancer at the Moroccan Pavilion now, but she has a cobweb in her navel"), or satirizing...
...fall to co-star in Hemingway's Across the River and into the Trees. At the moment in Rome, she is shooting A Virgin for the Prince in a role that involves considerable bed play with Vittorio Gassman. But Virna has decided this is no time to turn coy. "I don't mind being nude under a couple of sheets," she says. "For the moment, I'm only a body, and I don't want to be an actress with psychological problems...