Word: pinup
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...much display their bodies as move comfortably in them, telegraphing their belief that they were a match for any man. In the '40s and '50s, the bazooka buxomness of Jane Russell, Marilyn Monroe and Jayne Mansfield marked a reaction against equality; here was the milkmaid as sultry pinup. Now the hourglass is shattered. Says George Hurrell, the portrait photographer who for 60 years has celebrated Hollywood's full-figured stars: "In the '30s everything was round. It gave a body shape and shadow. Today, actresses are rid of hips and thighs and even busts...
...They're users. They're cruel, and they're certainly no better than I am," Paula Parkinson, 30, told the Washington Post. The 5-ft. 2-in., 100-lb. former Playboy pinup and Capitol Hill lobbyist denied rumors that she had video-taped 17 trysts, or that she kept a list of D.C. luminaries with whom she had sported. Well, one video tape and a short list of names, perhaps, none of which she would dream of using to blackmail nervous Congressmen, who have been busy pointing fingers in other directions while waiting for Parkinson...
...nothing happened. She swung again. No luck. And again. This time the bottle shattered on the asphalt lot. Coolly, Parton borrowed a wineglass and splashed some bubbly on target. The truckers all cheered, and one asked if she had a CB handle. "Not really," chirped the interstate pinup. "What do you think of 'Booby Trap'?" "I started out studying music, but very quickly went downhill and into politics," laments for mer British Prime Minister Edward Heath...