Word: girling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BUTTERFLIES ARE FREE. The basic plot of this tepid little comedy is an old chestnut, dropping with a slightly pathetic spin: Blind Boy meets Girl, Blind Boy loses Girl, Blind Boy gets Girl. Playwright Leonard Gershe is only sporadically funny and never uniquely himself, but simply a one-man situation-and-gag file...
Making Headlines. An R.A.A.F. World War II hero, Gorton had a habit of flying high. He made headlines when he showed up late one evening at the U.S. embassy, a 19-year-old girl in tow, and spent the next several hours all but ignoring U.S. officials in favor of an enthusiastic tête-à-tête with the young lady. A short time before, he had carelessly leaked word of the U.S. bombing halt in Viet Nam before the news had been released in Washington. The White House was annoyed, and so were Gorton's fellow...
Back on the highway, I am distracted not by traffic, but by birds. In bathing suits these are not just any girls. California Girls. There is a difference. Maybe it's the orange juice. Or the incessant sunshine. Or the surfing and the skiing. But there is something transporting about a California Girl; the legs are longer, the eyes clearer, the skin more exuberant. Maybe an out-of-towner can become a California Girl if she comes here early?say at about age three. After that, it's too late. She can be beautiful. And healthy. And sexy...
...young married woman, only 20 pounds away from being a California Girl, comes up. "I spend the whole day here. They have a lot of things to keep you busy?electrologist, beauty parlor, masseuse, steam room, baths, pool, coffee shop. You never have to leave. I've learned to use cocoa butter for my skin, take vitamin A for my hair, cuticle cream for my nails, and I've bought a new wig. It's a whole way of life. Except some of these older ladies here don't really lose any weight...
...center, a pretty girl (California bred, obviously) stands behind a table. "Exercise your constitutional rights," she urges. How can I resist? "I'm with the people's lobby," she explains. "We fill up petitions on contract for different kinds of groups. In California you can get most kinds of laws passed by the people without going near the legislature. The Clean-Air Council and a group called Write for Your Life are behind this one, but there are other smog groups, one called The Right to Clean Air, another called Stamp Out Smog?S.O.S.?and one called People Pledged...