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Tugging at hems has been a feminine wile ever since skirts got off the floor, but more and more U.S. girls are now looking for a new parlor trick. Their skirts are soaring so high that no amount of hemming and hauling could help them hide those inches above the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: The Courage of Courr | 4/9/1965 | See Source »

A balding rugby player, Courrèges took both the bouquets and brickbats in his stride, innocently denied that his main aim was to lift the skirts of the Western world. "I'm not interested in a woman's knees. What's important is that the rhythm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: The Courage of Courr | 4/9/1965 | See Source »

The plot collapses around Shirley MacLaine, cast as a girl reporter who infiltrates the seraglio of King Fawz (Peter Ustinov) looking for a lewd scoop and discovers the missing Goldfarb (Richard Crenna) instead. One night, summoned to Fawz for fondling, Shirley rubs down with garlic, dons a fright wig, blacks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Goldfarb v. The People | 4/9/1965 | See Source »

Diary of a Chambermaid. Newly arrived from Paris to work in a stolid provincial home, the vixenish maid (Jeanne Moreau) quietly appraises her surroundings. Her employers inhabit a cheerless chateau stuffed with ferns, overprotected objets d'art, and family skeletons. She duly notes that the place is full of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Masterful Maid | 3/19/1965 | See Source »

Next to sex, says Dawn, "souvenir-ing" is the most popular Olympic pastime. After those same 1958 Empire Games, there was a reception at which Australian lady athletes "hitched up their skirts and tucked silver pepper and salt shakers and crystal wineglasses into the tops of their stockings or inside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Swimming: Fun at the Games | 3/12/1965 | See Source »

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