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Perversely, some sufferers begin to resent their own attractiveness. An afflicted New York lawyer, married and the mother of a baby girl, was enraged when a construction worker would flirt or whistle. "You bastard," she thought, "little do you know I'm poisoned." New York Architect Geoffrey Meisel refused to go into bars for months after he got herpes, because he felt like a fake. "You're putting on this great front when you know that deep down inside you is this lesion...
...hips and gathered for a short volume effect. It is also a natural evolution toward femininity after the dizzying circus of pants, knickers, Bermudas, gauchos and Zouaves." Valentino, the dean of Italian designers, argues that "women feel the need for greater liberty. They want to seduce and flirt. The new short skirts are wide and swing as you walk-it's hide and seek." U.S. Designer Perry Ellis, who has been showing short skirts for three years, notes that they have taken off, so to speak, only this year. Says he: "One of the most important parts...
...their sarongs and sashes. They do four dances, starting with a hunting dance in which a small boy brandishes a spear and tries to look ferocious. The coconut dance is the most fun and the most intricate, as the children clap halves of coconuts from hand to hand. They flirt, but do not touch...
...year-old Persian Angora with silky white hair and green eyes. Fond though she is of Victoria, Harbison stops short of a blanket endorsement of the whole species. Says she: "Victoria is not like a lot of other cats. She is extremely affectionate, and she'll flirt with strangers because she wants to be petted." Any such offerings of affection are wasted on Senior Editor William F. Ewald, who edited the story. Says Ewald: "The only animals I like are the edible ones...
Printed on heavy magazine paper, with a handsome color cover, Intro ($1.50 a copy) runs well-illustrated feature stories that range from lively to giddy. Examples: "If At Flirt You Don't Succeed . .."; "The Love Game: Winning Without Keeping Score"; "Practical Pets to Fit Your Life Style" (fins-down winners are fish). Regular departments cover travel, fashion, finance, food, music, film and books, and there is a column for single parents and a chatty publisher's letter by Douglas, who is prone to such breathless confessions as "I created Intro to solve my own social problems, but wanted...