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...Consider the 1947 Miss Italy contest. Among the also-rans: Silvana Mangano, a sensation with her hiked-up skirt and dirty dancing in "Bitter Rice," and Eleonora Rossi Drago, the keen-featured seductress of Antonioni's 1955 "Le Amiche." The pageant winner was the luminous 16-year-old Lucia Bos?, who would star in Antonioni's first two features, "Cronaca di un amore" and "The Lady Without Camelias." Second place went to Gianna Maria Canale, who was "Theodora Slave Empress" before co-starring in "Hercules." And in third place: Gina Lollobrigida, one of an imposing group of Italian actresses...
Monday-morning quarterbacking makes people think we could've done better. Poppycock! No one could have predicted Sept. 11. To sit back and scream "How could you miss this? You failed!" is stupidity at its worst. The complainers should come up with a procedure that would treat all threats with equal concern. MARCIA KULP York...
...Dali. Each of the teams is led out by the silicone jiggle of a "ladyboy" (Thailand's English term for transsexuals) to the off-key oom-pah-pahs of the prison brass band. Stubble shows through sweat-beaded pancake as the transsexuals teeter in stiletto heels on the turf. Miss Nigeria has an Afro wig, Miss England a ball gown and crown. Miss Japan is mincing in a kimono. Miss America has a jerry-rigged hula skirt that threatens to fall down. A thick papier-machE chain is snipped with giant scissors, and its two halves waft skyward, borne...
DIED. NANCY WHITE, 85, elegant, eminently proper editor of Harper's Bazaar during the 1960s, known throughout three marriages as Miss White; in New York City. Not nearly as ubiquitous as her primary rival, Vogue's Diana Vreeland, White kept apace with the tumultuous decade, infusing the magazine with photographs by Avedon and Hiro and featuring models in bikinis, luminous body stockings and space suits...
...could miss some of this if you walk too briskly through "Trading Places," which goes easy on the geopolitics and focuses instead on the trade itself and how it shaped British and Asian taste and culture. Portraits of Company men comfortably set up in their new eastern homes?one poses with his Indian lover and their children?and the exotic chintz, porcelain, and tea sets snapped up by fashionable Brits all testify to the discomforting link between warm-and-fuzzy multiculturalism and hungry global capital. The trouble is, the Company can occasionally come off as nothing more threatening...