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...Rosy bras have increased fivefold-has convinced French admen that frankness can bring in the francs. As a result, their ads have been getting increasingly more daring. A recent Rosy ad, for example, pictures a woman wearing a lacy bra, but otherwise she is bare to well below the navel; partially visible behind her is a man wearing nothing. To Bleustein-Blanchet, there is nothing erotic about such advertising. "The nude is very pretty," he insists. "So why not show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Advertising: Frankly After the Francs | 5/10/1968 | See Source »

...journalism (TIME) as well as fiction (Kings Go Forth. Stars in My Crown), Brown tells his tale in matter-of-fact, down-to-earth prose. But by the time Paul heads eastward, the least wary reader will know that the hero is in for a stiff bout of navel-gazing-and, almost surely, a religious experience that will change his existence. His guru is a holy man named Bhaiji who receives a mortal stab wound during a religious riot. And sure enough, just before his death, Bhaiji manages through his power to implant faith and purpose in Paul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Help from a Guru | 3/15/1968 | See Source »

...scene, interviewed Iowans who had been present for the great event. Colescott's version breaks the bank heist into a series of movie stills, evokes Dillinger's gaiety and derring-do with "Fun" lettered in a corner and a half-naked doll, with a star in her navel, strumming a banjo-ukulele. Two naked gun molls accompany the raiders; as Colescott observes, "the Dillinger men took their girls with them wherever they went. I've tried to convey the feeling of the gang: very rowdy, very adolescent, very sexual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Thirties on Their Minds | 3/8/1968 | See Source »

...also ran a picture of Pammie Phillips, a typical housewife. "It took Pammie Phillips," said the paper, "eight days to learn she was a Times reader. She had her first real chance to read the Times while her son Sammy was occupied discovering how to put sand in his navel." Next year, presumably, it'll be Sammy's turn to be a Times reader...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newspapers: The Great Haunch Forward | 1/5/1968 | See Source »

...press: "A woman today can be anything she wants to be a Gainsborough or a Reynolds or a Reynolds Wrap." Then came a preview of the provocative choices ahead. First was a series of simple knit dresses simple except for the clear vinyl bands that saucily bared the navel and the underslope of the bosom. Nor were the bathing suits that followed any letdown. Clear vinyl was at work again to make them the nudest since the topless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: Up, Up & Away | 12/1/1967 | See Source »

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