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Word: husbanding (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Swelling the Inventory. To combat the perennial returnee, department stores have developed a variety of ploys. One Philadelphia matron who tried to bring back a sexy nightgown that her husband had given her was told in detail by an artful clerk of the care her husband had taken in selecting it. "After all," cooed the clerk, "isn't it better for you to have it than some other woman?" The lady kept the gown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Marketplace: Many Happy Returns | 1/13/1967 | See Source »

...reduced price in a discount house. Merchandisers tell the tale of one buyer whose pre-Christmas inventory totaled six toasters; the week after New Year's it had swelled to twelve. One New York City housewife has raised the technique to a high art. Each year her husband receives a gift box of Fabergé perfumes from the manufacturer. The lady returns it, bottle by bottle, to all the stores where she has charge accounts, thus accumulating $75 worth of credits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Marketplace: Many Happy Returns | 1/13/1967 | See Source »

...defense against their chaotic passions. His wife Ruth-provocatively passive, a lazy stick of dynamite waiting for the grasping hands of violent men-is oddly, if languidly, fascinated by this ménage. Even though she has three sons of her own, it is obvious that her husband's emotional aridity has left her sexually parched. "Oh, I was thirsty," she says, as she drains a glass of water in some seductive byplay with Brother Lenny. Soon Lenny is brushing her face with kisses. "She's wide open," observes Brother Joey, taking over the love play on sofa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Land of No Holds Barred | 1/13/1967 | See Source »

...blonde is Pamela Austin, a 25year-old Omaha-born actress and model who lives in Hollywood with her husband and two-year-old son. All her harebrained derring-do is done in the name of souping up sales of Dodge automobiles. Though it is impossible to say precisely how much auto sales are affected by promotion as opposed to styling, the fact remains that Dodge has done wonderfully well since it first went riding with Calamity Pam. In 1966, while most auto sales slumped, Dodge's went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Advertising: Calamity Pam | 1/13/1967 | See Source »

...Game Is Over, which transposes a novel by Emile Zola (La Curée) into the present Paris scene, he gives them little else. Game tells the gamy tale of a hot young wife who commits incest with the hot young stepson (Peter McEnery) of her cold old husband (Michel Piccoli), and Vadim finds opportunities innumerable to show the world what a lucky man he is. Mrs. Vadim is exhibited stark naked in a bed of lust and rising from a garden pool like the White Rock girl. She also appears topless in a bathroom and bottomless under a hair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Something Nue | 1/13/1967 | See Source »

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