Word: skimpiest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...greatest thing when a 36-year-old woman can put on the tightest jeans, the skimpiest shirt, play with a gun and call it work." So says Actress Elizabeth Ashley, whose work these days is a new comedy by Samuel Taylor titled Legend. In it she plays what she describes as an "outlawette" in a band of 17 Old West bad guys. Whatever the fate of the show when it opens on Broadway next month, Ashley's publicity poster seems a surefire hit. "A lady in those days couldn't go out and purchase outlawette gear," Liz says...
...spring, Nixon had taken his case to the American people over television. This time there was no TV appearance, no explanation or rationale offered. The first news of the attacks came not from the White House but from Radio Hanoi. Nixon imposed a press blackout on all but the skimpiest details of the raids, and ordered everyone from Cabinet officials to bomber pilots to keep silent. Inquiries about civilian casualties were met with the catechism, "We have targeted and continue to target only military targets." Reporters accompanying the Bob Hope Christmas show to airbases in Thailand were sternly warned...
Mother Waddles' appearance suggests Aunt Jemima rather than St. Charleszetta, but the mayor's description of her is apt. In her "Perpetual Mission," open 24 hours a day on Gratiot Avenue in the city's black ghetto, Mother Waddles and 30 volunteers operate on the skimpiest of budgets; she is currently $65,000 in debt. This year the mission will feed some 100,000 indigents, distribute 1,400 Christmas baskets, serve 400 hot Christmas dinners and provide college scholarships for 100 high school graduates. Mrs. Waddles and her ten children, who range in age from...