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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Marilyn Monroe doing "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend." From a novel about golddigging by Anita Loos; directed by Howard Hawks in 1953. Jane Russell doing a number in a gymnasium, lifting barbells, entitled "Isn't Anyone Here For Love."

Author: By Richard Turner, | Title: THE SCREEN | 10/10/1974 | See Source »

Twenty-five years ago, Carol Channing first enchanted Broadway as Lorelei Lee, the platinum-haired, platinum-headed blonde who gave the world the Little Rock wisdom that diamonds are a girl's best friend. That was in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, the musical hit that made her an instant star...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Siren on the Rocks | 2/11/1974 | See Source »

Crucial Command. The most note worthy transfer was of Li Te-sheng, 61, the army's top political commissar and a member of the nine-man Politburo standing committee and of the party's military affairs commission. He was sent from Peking to the crucial northern command in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Shifting the Generals | 1/14/1974 | See Source »

Anita Loos might well change her aphorism to "diamonds are an investor's best friend." So are emeralds, sapphires, rubies, and of course gold. Prices of these and other luxury goods have been rocketing as a result of dollar devaluation and inflation-fired demand. Indeed many will continue to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MERCHANDISING: The Rising Cost of Luxury | 7/2/1973 | See Source »

World War I puts the "connoisseur of bad generalship," as Fair styles himself, to the same exquisite torture an oenophilist might face in the cellars of the Tour d'Argent. There were so many foolish commanders that it is hard to pick only one or two for special commendation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Regiment of Blunderers | 8/30/1971 | See Source »

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