Word: peekaboo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brooklyn Museum, which she likes because it lets her take costumes back to her shop for copying. This year it supplied the inspiration for a woman's suit jacket copied from a man's hunting coat, and 15 dresses and a blouse with a filmy, peekaboo look, copied from a 75-year-old camisole. Sophie is well aware of the limitations of her art, and that styles run in amazingly regular cycles.* The trick is timing: to pick the right idea out of the past at the right time in the present. (This year's much touted...
...lush young native girl (Jean Simmons) and a splendidly dressed young nobleman (Sabu) come to the convent to learn the ways of God and of Western civilization, but stay to play peekaboo. The local nabob's insolent British handyman (David Farrar) lolls about the nunnery in shorts, displaying enough chest hair to stuff a kneeling cushion...
...singing, but not too loud, and everything smelt wonderful. Some guys with turbans was taking it easy on cushions. They had whiskers and they was having a smoke out of them jars with the hose on them and they was smothered in wonderful-looking broads . . . wearing them long peekaboo pants. Sitting on the floor was a three-piece orchestra playing Midway music. Standing out front was the best-looking broad of them all doing bumps and boy, was she built! . . . Yes, sir, that was Persia...
...records for themselves and carried on. Avery proudly told newsmen: "I am going to work daily, unless they throw me out bodily. I am still running this place." But by week's end Avery had become an executive with no work to do, reduced to playing peekaboo with the photographers. He spent his days in his office conferring with company lawyers, but General Byron ran Montgomery Ward...
...when Veronica blows herself up along with a messy pile of Japs, you forget that she's the babe with the "peekaboo bang" and get a little respect for the American female. About Paulette Goddard: well, she's good too, except now it's a sure bet that Hollywood can't put out a single picture without at least one sheer black nightie...