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Like the locale is different, see, but every time it's the same girl. The door bell rings and there she is, in a peekaboo miniskirt and a see-through blouse. She says she wants some ice cubes, but what she really wants is me . . . Half an hour later I look up from my pillow. "Pardon me," I say, playing it sophisticated, "but aren't you Raquel Welch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stars: Sea of C Cups | 4/4/1969 | See Source »

Three weeks after their epochal meeting Curtis and Welch were amalgamated into Curtwel productions. By 1967, they calculated that it was time to make the merger complete. In Paris, demurely outfitted in a crocheted wool miniskirt and a flowing train of photographers, Raquel took her second marriage vows, sighing confidentially, "I wish I had a double...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stars: Sea of C Cups | 4/4/1969 | See Source »

...money") and venerable Poet Marianne Moore. "This is gonna ruin my reputation," quipped Spillane, sipping a glass of milk while Miss Moore sampled the champagne. "Don't worry," the director assured the poet when she began tugging on her calf-length skirt. "You could have worn your miniskirt for these closeups." "I did," she retorted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Feb. 14, 1969 | 2/14/1969 | See Source »

...thorniest question for most companies is where to draw the line on miniskirts. In a survey conducted by the Administrative Management Society, 52% of the 372 firms polled had no objections to skirts two to three inches above the knee. But most frowned on the micro-miniskirt, which one executive defined as the "for-goodness'-sake-don't-bend-over style." Nowhere do miniskirts raise more eyebrows than in the Ford Foundation's new Manhattan headquarters, where secretaries work in glass-enclosed offices. Overcome by a sudden sense of modesty, one secretary, perched at a graceful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: FASHION SHOW IN THE OFFICE | 8/2/1968 | See Source »

...slogan buttons on the front and "Make Love Not War" embroidered on the back. When Dull drags him off, he yells, "Police brutality!"; and, soon after, he calls Armado a "Fascist Hindu!" Jaquenetta herself (Zoe Kamitses) turns out to be a yellow-stockinged blonde in a red and purple miniskirt, with sunglasses perched on her head and a transistor radio glued to her ear. Later she proves adept at swinging her hips and popping bubble gum on the downbeat...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: 'Love's Labour's Lost' Midst Rock 'n' Raga | 7/12/1968 | See Source »

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