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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 15, 1980 | 9/15/1980 | See Source »

...seethes with confusions, corruption and misapprehension. Karma, for example, a rather severe concept of determinism, has been turned into a metaphysical jelly bean by hippies, shopping-center swamis and jet-lagged gurus. "Karma," writes Mehta, "is now felt as a sort of vibration and Krishna is a doe-eyed pinup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Transcendence, Incorporated | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

...Greene, the Imperfect 2½. Greene, 32, a Chicago Tribune columnist, has joined the ranks of four-color sex symbols with his own 16-in. by 22-in. poster. The work depicts him posing in a motel room door, his shirt slashed to the navel. Greene's pinup career began when he set out to do a column on the superstar poster business and called Marketcom/Crosswinds Corp., a Fenton, Mo., firm specializing in posters of big-name athletes. "One thing led to another, and we decided he could be a sex symbol," says Ron Michel, the company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Poster Boy | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

...about those measurements of Pinup Starlet Bo Derek, 28-19-500,000? Those of course are the dimensions of a poster of Bo kneeling in the surf that has already sold 500,000 copies. Before the poster and her success in the film 10, Derek, 22, was known for her role in Orca, the Killer Whale, in which she was billed below Orca. Then came success. Now in addition to movie and television offers, Bo is out to improve on the dimensions of alltime Poster Star Farrah Fawcett, who measures 28-19-4 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 12, 1979 | 11/12/1979 | See Source »

...successors have been revealing, Pilgrim was positively coy. One pose, reproduced at the party, shows her wearing only a white fur stole but exposing little more than cleavage. Pilgrim's progress has been pretty good: now 45 and the mother of two teenage girls, Hefner's pioneer pinup is still as pretty as her picture. · At $500,000 the mansion was a doubtful bargain, even with 26 rooms, 1.7 acres and a prime location in Long Island's haute summer town of East Hampton. And even with its notorious cachet as Grey Gardens, squalid home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 24, 1979 | 9/24/1979 | See Source »

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