Word: salesgirl
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Down below, two law students were shopping for dresses for female friends. "She's got bright red hair. What color should I buy?" one asked a salesgirl...
...love and favor and affection which they bear toward their parents." A few weeks before, Lord Home shed his own title to become just plain Sir Alec Douglas-Home, and that made the noble bit a little conspicuous for the children. Meriel took a proper commoner job as salesgirl at Bumpus, London's venerable bookshop. A photographer caught her melding into her new scenery during lunch hour, going shopping like everyone else...
...pretty but apparently quite ordinary young Parisienne (played by Anna Karina, in private life the director's wife) who all at once experiences an intense compulsion to be or to become "somebody special." She abandons her young husband and their baby and takes a job as a salesgirl. Careless with money, she falls behind in her rent. Locked out of her flat, she spends one night with one young man, another with another. After a while, sick of being broke, she accepts some francs for her franchise. The money is nice to have, but she gets more than money...
Right Sequence. Instead, Gover offers what at first seems to be some blessed burlesque relief. In a comic will-she-or-won't-she seduction scene, the clever reporter, taking time out from the case, is cossetted, cozened and finally totally defeated by a sumptuous, fluff-headed salesgirl who is canny enough to keep the only two ideas she ever had-marriage and bed-in their proper sequence. Given today's liberal standards and the girl's palpably provocative evasions, a reader is likely to find himself lightheartedly rooting for the reporter. The doings and undoings, anyway...
...hero (Vittorio Gassman), an artful dodger in need of some new shoes, strolls into a shoe store and tries on an expensive pair. "They look dark in this light," he murmurs, and permits the salesgirl to urge him toward the front door, where he carefully inspects the leather in the sunlight. A tomato, flung by an accomplice on the sidewalk, smacks him in the face. "Why, you punk!" the hero roars, and as the salesgirl stares in confusion he furiously pursues his assailant down the street and around the corner, running quite well for a man in a new pair...