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...last week's escapade was a doozy by any royal standard. Within days after Prince Andrew's celebrated return from his tour of duty in the Falklands aboard the carrier Invincible, he plans a well-deserved rest. Ah, but not alone. Andrew, 22, and a winsome lass named Koo Stark, 25, head off for the Caribbean island of Mustique and the house once used as a trysting hideaway by Princess Margaret and her old flame Roddy Llewellyn. Hoping to get away unnoticed, the couple travel under the names Mr. and Mrs. A. Cambridge. But the press tumbles...
...have his Down Under accent down pat, but the rest will have to fake it. Rachel, who was raised on an Oxfordshire farm, hopes a mid-Atlantic cadence will carry her through. Besides, says she, "Americans can't tell the difference between Australian and English accents anyway." Cheeky lass...
...story begins in Boston, nearly 60 years ago, with a high school girl. "I took all sorts of jobs to earn money," she remembers. "I was asked to pose for a statue of Spring, for a fountain." The lass obliged, in the buff. "It was lovely, beautiful. I had the perfect figure for it," she says. The leaves of the calendar tumble to reveal the present. The young lady, now at the other end of life, is Bette Davis, 74, and she is playing Alice Vanderbilt, the imperious matriarch of that gilded clan in Little Gloria . . . Happy at Last...
...that's out of the question - 'bit of fluff.' " But what does Lloyd's new British edition actually include as synonyms for woman? "Career woman," for one. And "Ms." And "women's libber." But also "broad, wench, moll, crumpet, nymph, damsel, dowager, lass, petticoat" and - heavens to Betsy! - "bit of fluff...
Unlike the short skirts of the 1960s, the new minis are not political or sexual proclamations. For many a dashing lass in that pioneering wave, the A-line mini was a kind of manifesto at the feminist barricades. The first cutoff skirts of Great Britain's Mary Quant, recalls Fashion Writer Suzy Menkes in the London Times, "were conceived as a rejection of everything that existing fashion stood for." They were also "an explicit sexual statement. Today's minis are far less predatory, and when they are worn over thick tights with leg warmers and big sweaters, they...