Word: mannequins
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...exploits its advantage with television's first series about a transvestite, The Ugliest Girl in Town. The story deals with a young Hollywood talent agent (Peter Kastner) who is mad for an English starlet. He works his way to London as a bewigged model and becomes the hottest mannequin since Twiggy. Kastner admits that at first he feared the show "might be offensive and in bad taste." After screening the pilot, he became convinced that it is merely "silly...
Nowhere is this more evident than in the dialogue. Not atypical is an exchange from "The Girl Killers" between two workers in a mannequin factory, who are themselves embarrassed by the lines...
...could mistake the murderers, young Myra Hindley and Ian Brady, for Bonnie and Clyde; as rendered by Author Williams, they are closer to Jekyll and Hyde, complete with Victorian-melodrama makeup. Ian, 25, is the main figure, but wind him as he will, Williams cannot bring his manic mannequin to life...
...weather onstage, drives Sylvia into Stan's Greenwich Village flat. She (Marian Seldes) is a bookkeeper who poses as an actress on the basis of her sessions at group-therapy psychodrama. He (Gene Troobnick) is a sportswear buyer who poses as a sculptor by coating tennis rackets, mannequin legs and xylophones with plaster of paris. It is not so much the chemistry of love that fuses the pair as the mutual palpitating fear that they may be cultural dropouts...
What fascinates Paris buyers is that he has managed to remain Courreges while softening his line. Softer generally meant sexier. One bountiful mannequin almost frugged herself out of a sheer organdy miniskirt that was hitched by a strap in front to a little bolero top, cut short enough to expose the under-slope of her bosom. The gentlest touch of all: big imitation posies that were strewn over his pants, dresses, socks and, as an afterthought, incorporated into his models' hairdos. "I got up early this morning and started cutting out those flowers for the hair," said the usually...