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...enough about me as an individual to distinguish myself from my parents. And so far, that seems to be working as far as acting goes." Balasko built her formidable career on brassy comic roles portraying salty, street-smart women. Aware - and somewhat chagrined - that they'll never be the shapeliest beauties in the room, classic Balasko characters waste no time trying to seduce with verbal niceties or polite formalities. Adapting that approach to a more wounded and vulnerable persona, Berry first created a stir as the plain, plump, unfairly named Lolita in Look At Me, who tries desperately...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Her Own Woman | 10/23/2005 | See Source »

...women, who are credited with having the shapeliest legs in the world, last week faced the horrifying knowledge that soon they would have to go silk-stockingless. Raw-silk imports from Japan had ended. There was just no more silk for stockings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 1939-1948: WAR | 3/9/1998 | See Source »

...calls "freaks" -the "Superwomen" of the sport, of whom there are about 50 in the U.S.-and the "average" female body builder. Most participants fall into the second category: women who work out just enough to compete in body-building contests where top prize goes to the best-proportioned, shapeliest and firmest body. Women can easily take off a few pounds in the first month after they start working out, says Tim Kimber, general manager of Gold's. But to qualify for competition they must buckle down to rigorous, five-times-a-week training. "Women can actually mold their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Pumping Iron, Chapter II | 11/12/1979 | See Source »

...interested that it opened its own club, intends to have clubs in 50 other cities within the next two years. Sensing the trend, nightclubs in many cities, e.g., the Roaring Twenties in Beverly Hills, are setting one room aside as a key club, stocking it with the shapeliest waitresses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MODERN LIVING: Cash Under the Gaslight | 12/12/1960 | See Source »

...Europe's shapeliest stars, Italian Cinemactress Silvana Pampanini (37-23-36), flew from Rome to the U.S. for a week of personal appearances in Denver's "Festival of Italy." "It isn't true," La Pampanini loudly cried, "that I think American men are lousy lovers. All the Americans I've met," she murmered, in a graceful non sequitur, "have been very fine and admirable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 26, 1955 | 9/26/1955 | See Source »

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