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...title notwithstanding, Gypsy is a singularly sobersided affair until midway in Act II, when a trio of tassel-tossing campaigners bump, grind and bring down the house in an indelicate air for the G-string called You Gotta Have a Gimmick. Burlesque may have killed vaudeville, but a lot more of it might cure Gypsy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musical on Broadway, Jun. 1, 1959 | 6/1/1959 | See Source »

...dean of women, he a professor of anthropology-in a small college town. At opposite ends of the stage they give cutey-cute lectures on marriage which, on a midstage merry-go-round-like set, they themselves help illustrate. As The Marriage-Go-Round's third or G-string, Actress Newmar plays an amply built Swedish blonde who. from out the whole world, has chosen Boyer to give her a child. Her body, she informs him, "is primed in readiness," nor is her use or adornment of it ever marred by reticence. While Colbert, who knows what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Nov. 10, 1958 | 11/10/1958 | See Source »

Morality Play. Not that Fielding is a prude: "For the most rugged, down-to-bare-facts night life on the continent of Europe-at decent prices and under non-clip conditions, too-Hamburg wins the diamond-studded G-string by 6 bumps and 24 grinds." It is not raw flesh but raw deals that make Fielding's blood boil: "Of all the groups of surly, devious, tip-hungry ruffians we've met in our travels, the Venetian gondoliers take our personal booby prize." Fielding's Guide is fun because he writes a kind of frivolous morality play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: No. 1 Travel Guide | 4/21/1958 | See Source »

...Lorna. She was muffled in a red velvet robe from chin to trim ankle. "It says here," said Malgesto politely, "that you dance the mambo in ballet style." Eda impatiently corrected him: "I dance the mambo in sexy style," dramatically ripped off her robe and with only a G-string to protect her from studio drafts, did her routine. Frantically Paco gestured for his cameramen, but they stood transfixed, and Eda danced inexorably on before the eyes of thousands of Mexicans. When the phones stopped ringing and the censors stopped roaring, Malgesto paid a 5,000-peso fine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Genial Mexican | 7/22/1957 | See Source »

Last week in more than 50 Parisian nightclubs, strippers with such names as Rita Cadillac and Kira Tekitoff were joyously peeling. Le cache-sexe, the French word for the irreducible garment - the G-string - was officially listed in the latest edition of the dictionary Larousse, and most importantly, scores of shopgirls and typists were powdering their delicate epidermises to take part in the first qualifying heat of the 1956 International Amateur Striptease Contest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Le Striptease | 1/2/1956 | See Source »

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