Word: fluff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...toward the distant sun. When they gather speed as they approach the sun, their surface gets hotter, turning some of the frozen gas to vapor and freeing some of the dust to form the comets' glowing heads and tails. When an old comet disintegrates, it leaves bits of fluff to wander in space...
Right Sequence. Instead, Gover offers what at first seems to be some blessed burlesque relief. In a comic will-she-or-won't-she seduction scene, the clever reporter, taking time out from the case, is cossetted, cozened and finally totally defeated by a sumptuous, fluff-headed salesgirl who is canny enough to keep the only two ideas she ever had-marriage and bed-in their proper sequence. Given today's liberal standards and the girl's palpably provocative evasions, a reader is likely to find himself lightheartedly rooting for the reporter. The doings and undoings, anyway...
...least she had something on. Granted, it was not much; a bit of fluff here and there. But compared to the buff that Carroll Baker, 32, wore for the first days of screening The Carpetbaggers, her two-piece boa was a positive shroud. By the script, Carroll-as Screen Queen Rita Marlowe-was supposed to cavort on the chandelier until it collapsed from extra weight. All those feathers, no doubt...
Happily, Elke is no peaches and cream puff to take home to mom; sex is prominent in her essential demeanor. She is 5 ft. 7 in. tall, weighs 127 Ibs. Her bust is one yard around. Her figure is terrific and her eyes flash green beneath a fluff of platinum hair. Hollywood's image sculptors took one look at her, sucked in their breath, and began to perfect her perfections. They told her to lose ten pounds, which...
...much of a point to win. The entire rhubarb, after all, was about nothing but money. The Broadway theater is indeed not dying. But it is not living very meaningfully either. At some expense to serious drama, it calculatedly emphasizes entertainment; but much of its chosen fluff fails utterly to entertain. When truly superior work comes along, it will always achieve Broadway production...