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...want to be a model!" she cried, bursting into tears. But by afternoon she had calmed down, and swept through the opening show with no tears. She even endured the duke's suave commentary on the fur. "There's nothing like a fur miniskirt," intoned His Grace, "to keep a girl's behind warm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 21, 1967 | 4/21/1967 | See Source »

...eyes a cool matte blue. There is something royal in her bearing and at the same time something girlish. The effect is delightfully incongruous. Says Peter Ustinov: "She's a mixture of Harper's bizarre and church bazaar." She is a mod goddess, Eleanor of Aquitaine in a miniskirt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Actresses: Birds of a Father | 3/17/1967 | See Source »

...instruments, Jacqueline suffers none of the neuroses of a former prodigy. Her temperament is as direct and gay as her cello is brooding and introspective. She lives in a London flat and loves the city's mod fashions, but unfortunately, she says, "I couldn't wear a miniskirt and play the cello...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cellists: A Prodigy Comes of Age | 3/10/1967 | See Source »

...play, the film describes in 55 minutes the brutal brief encounter between a black man and a white woman who meet in a subway car somewhere under Manhattan. The man (Al Freeman Jr.) looks like a young intellectual; the woman (Shirley Knight) acts like a maniac in a miniskirt. Smiling and snarling, she flops down beside him and slides her thigh against his thigh. When he stammers, she strokes his lips and invites him to "do the thing" right there and then, and never mind the other passengers. When he refuses, she leaps to her feet and screams: "You middle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: From Stage to Screen: Murder, Madness & Mom | 3/3/1967 | See Source »

...depicts a redhaired teeny-bopper in a crumpled miniskirt displaying maximum legginess. Her pose of independence is amplified by a Hula Hoop pseudo halo and a background of the Stars and Stripes. Says Lindner: "I am not a woman hater or a sadist. Women who would be angels wouldn't interest me. They'd be sexless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Artists: Baal Booster | 2/3/1967 | See Source »

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