Word: lasses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...scene: Edinburgh airport. A lass working for the British Board of Trade and assigned to quiz every 30th arriving passenger flips open...
...whistles echoed throughout the house as the curtain rose on a chorus line of topless dancers and intensified at the entrance of Alawn Don Jay, the "Sophisticate Blond Beauty." Audiences paid $25,700 for the show. Highlight of the evening's entertainment: Cece Ingram, a top-heavy lass billed as Satan's Angel. Satan's little darling stripped down to a G string and tassels, which she set aflame and proceeded to twirl in opposite directions. Sighs Cece: "It wrecks the breasts, but I've stayed in the business because-well-burlesque is my home...
That pragmatic philosophy would sound right issuing from the clenched lips of Nominee Dustin Hoffman, who declines to attend the spectacle. But from the bow lips of the narrow-shouldered lass with the French intonations? Tiens, it is like a kitten purring Beethoven. And Geneviève insists that there are more at home like her. "European women-they're so exaggerated," she declares. "Like Frenchwomen, they're such bitches. They look at each other, not men. And American women-they have no secrets. The best women-I have to say it-are Canadians. No one has noticed...
This same bricklayer-artist had a five-year-old daughter, a precocious lass who was already her father's equal and was bidding for the championship...