Word: lasse
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Most of all, they want to vacation in Florida, whose mythic allure and down-to-sand prices make it a powerful competitor of the Spanish resorts that have long attracted the working-class English vacationer. But today there are few places in the world where a lad and his lass from Lancashire can get a better vacation bargain than in what some call in jest "Blackpool in the Sun," after the blue-collar British vacation spot of less affluent times. Two weeks at a Miami Beach hotel, round-trip air fare included, can cost as little as $470. One British...
...long-stemmed can-can dancers kick, whirl and cartwheel, split, shimmy and pirouette to Offenbach's rollicking La Vie Parisienne. In a reverse striptease, a comely Victorian lass in black stockings and garter belt dresses up in corset and crinoline for a grand occasion orchestrated by Strauss. The star of the show, callipygian Linda Bardot, clad mostly in a pearly headdress, twirls around under a filigreed umbrella, mouthing in puffick Cockney Oi'm Aownly aye Bird in aye Gilded Cayge. Between and after the twice-nightly shows, the place becomes a disco where the windows vibrate past midnight...
...sheltered against the weather at the Badminton Horse Trials. But it's nice to make new friends. With the Queen and Prince Philip off on a state visit to Switzerland, Andrew hosted a dinner in his Buckingham Palace apartment for a single guest: Carolyn Seaward, 19, a Devonshire lass who as Miss United Kingdom is best known for her measurements (35-24-35). "Absolutely wonderful," gushed Carolyn après he. "We just relaxed and listened to music and chatted. The Prince talked about my modeling career and a little about the navy...
...cross-country in the fall, And in the winter, indoor track No lazy girl this SoHo lass--A leader of the pack...