Word: huckstress
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...commercials in Japan these days, Actress Sophia Loren travels more breezily -on a Honda motorbike. "We needed a softer image to promote the idea that bikes like ours are for ladies also," says a Honda spokesman, explaining why Loren, 41, was hired as Honda's first foreign huckstress. Sophia, who spent five days putt-putting for the cameras outside her Italian villa, now joins some other well-known Westerners who advertise wares on the Japanese tube. Among them: Actors Charles Bronson (men's cosmetics), Orson Welles (whisky) and Peter Folk (clothes). Her own work as motorbike saleswoman will...
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