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Word: microskirt (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1967-1967
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...Tallulah Bankhead, Gore Vidal and Joan Bennett, all of them crushed into a Manhattan nightclub no larger than an orgone box. Best job of capturing the jaded eye was turned in by Angela Lansbury, 42, Broadway's ever-eccentric Mame, who was clad in an all but invisible microskirt. Angela's big news was that she had just turned down a movie role as a lesbian. "Corny as it sounds," said she, flashing a stretch of thigh, "I don't want to destroy the image I've created as Mame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 17, 1967 | 11/17/1967 | See Source »

Soup is about a bachelor gourmet editor (Gig Young) on the rueful side of 40, who thinks that variety is the spice of sex life until he meets The Girl. Barbara Ferris is a fetching house urchin who wears her microskirt so short that the evening seems like a continual panty raid. Her undies scan better than the dialogue, which unravels along such lines as, She: "You only want me for one thing." He: "Yes, but what a lovely thing." If the polish is in Ferris' frame, the spit is in her delivery. She has a snort like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Consolation Prizes | 10/27/1967 | See Source »

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