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...dress or kimono, and 30 Japanese Rockettes who bump and grind through Papa Don't Preach to Me in top hat and tails. Bare-breasted "Arabian" beauties alternate onstage with lion-maned Kabuki dancers. There is an exclusive downstairs party suite with 120 of Tokyo's most luscious hostesses, as well as a 16-page leatherbound wine list in which choices range from $5.80 for a thimble of Hennessy brandy to $1.50 for "aerated water," otherwise known as Coca-Cola. During the Christmas season, the Mikado offers its customers an all-purpose bonenkai kit containing champagne, smoked oysters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan: Merry Bonenkoi | 12/31/1965 | See Source »

...Verdi Te Deum, performed by the multitudes of the Glee Club, Choral Society, and Orchestra, was in contrast, a thrilling piece. Verdi uses a number of effective emotional techniques. He alternates short phrases between the men's and women's choruses, contrasting an esoteric female sound with the rich, luscious chords that a male chorus can provide. He goes from one extreme of the dynamics spectrum to the other in a relatively short period of time. And he startles you with sudden harmonic shifts into big, massive, stirring chords...

Author: By Thomas C. Horne, | Title: HRO, HGC, and Radcliffe Choral Society | 12/13/1965 | See Source »

...Marseille, Conrad met and fell madly in love with the Pretender's beautiful young mistress, a luscious Hungarian named Paula de Somogyi. They ran off together and spent several idyllic weeks in a rose-covered cottage on an Alp. The idyl ended when a jealous admirer provoked a quarrel. Conrad challenged him to a duel, but then chivalrously fired at the fellow's pistol hand. His opponent, who was Francis Scott Key's grandson but obviously no gentleman, calmly transferred the pistol to his other hand and shot Conrad through the chest. For days Conrad lay near...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: It Was All True | 11/26/1965 | See Source »

...does up two blocks from Charles Street or down two blocks from Harvard Square. And women on the corner, winos in the doorways, cops with callous faces and hardened eyes, do not summon up for me, as they do for some poetical white spirits, any vast romantic phantasies of luscious and previously unknown satisfactions...

Author: By Jonathan Kozol, | Title: Why I Moved Into Roxbury | 10/1/1965 | See Source »

Rock Hudson plays, if that is the word, an absolutely irresistible womanizer. This is subtly conveyed by showing luscious ladies giving Rock the keys to their apartments on sight, while others visit him each morning to cook his breakfast and pick up his laundry. To drive the point home, Hudson dials two girls simultaneously on two phones and tells them both at once that he'll be around later that evening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Rolling with Rock | 9/10/1965 | See Source »

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