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Asked to talk to a doll—a play on Willis’ role as the voice of Mikey from Look Who’s Talking—Willis jokingly looked under the skirt of the doll and tossed it offstage...
...broadcast. After it’s all over, dates confess their feelings of love or repulsion to host Roger Lodge (don’t worry, no one else knows who he is either). On a recent episode, confident coquette Pamela met Tony, an electronics salesman with a knack for skirt-chasing. The two began the date with a long stroll on the beach, where Pamela dropped her robe and revealed a strapless two-piece bathing suit and an even tan. Feeling patriotic, Pam suggested they gather rocks and paint them red, white and blue to honor the devoted beach firemen...
...Glamour’s credit, the publication is tempering the fantasy with a bit of real-worldliness. One of the new additions to the mag is a fashion trial run by some of Glamour’s own. Just as expected, the full-length prairie skirt proved “bulky” and “flouncy” for day-to-day wear. It—like so much that is presented in the world of fashion make-believe—is probably better left to the Janes whose morning walks are unencumbered enough and whose waists...
Students with microwaves, hotpots and toasters had to go to extra lengths to skirt College restrictions on electrical appliances this year, as House superintendents cracked down on room inspections in the wake of an Eliot House fire...
...Garrick, wife of the actor David, was a keen follower of 18th century fashion. Her painted Chinese silk dress has a skirt so wide she must have had to go through doors sideways. She wasn't so lucky with some bed hangings she tried to smuggle in. "It was illegal to import Chinese silk," says chief curator Christopher Wilk, "because Great Britain was trying to protect the U.K. textile industry." The fabric was impounded, which left poor Mrs. Garrick "weeping like Rachel for her children," as her husband wrote to a friend. She hung the recovered material around...