Word: show-girl
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...writing, of course, about the Berlusconi sex scandal that has been all over the Italian papers since the end of April. Berlusconi is alleged to have had an inappropriate relationship with an 18 year-old aspiring show-girl, Napoli’s Noemi Letizia...
There is something grotesque about a young child wearing lipstick, eye makeup and show-girl costumes. Whether or not the parents of JonBenet had anything to do with her death, they certainly made a travesty of her life. POLLY S. BROWDER La Jolla, California...
...finale is next. Bates, calmer than most, slips into her show-girl outfit, a jeweled network of baubles and beads cascading down her lithe body. A feather from her sequined cape floats past her painted red lips, and she blows it away matter-of-factly. Ten pounds of rhinestones, wires and multicolored feathers ascend 3 ft. over her head. The headdress hurts. Bates must crouch down and walk ducklike to clear the door to the stage...
When Aurora comes to Italy from France at war's end, she brings gentle Silvestri to his knees at first meeting. Unfortunately for him, she is completely dominated by an American friend of his who has easily slipped from military government into real estate. Aurora's show-girl history is slightly tawdry, but her stunning figure and simple mind persuade Silvestri that she is his great love. To Aurora, Silvestri is a hapless, tiresome romantic. What she wants is a real man, preferably one with money. As it turns out, she finds both, but not in the same...
When Singapore's British society behaved stuffily toward his show-girl fiancee, the Sultan struck back by firing all the Britons in his service and planting shrubs on the fairways and greens of the golf course used by the sahibs, which was on his property. But the romance faltered, and Lydia Hill, wearing a large diamond ring, returned to London and was killed in the blitz. "I am heartbroken," said the Sultan, who had followed her to Britain. A few days later he met reddish-blonde Rumanian Marcella Mendl and married her, explaining: "It was love at first sight...