Word: slenderized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...swarms of muscular women in tight pigtails, laborers' boots and identical blue boiler suits. The glorious revolution, said Madame Soong Ching-ling, U.S.-educated* widow of Sun Yat-sen and now People's Vice Chairman, had brought about a great change in Chinese "esthetic views . . . The fragile, slender and sentimental girls, whom the exploiting classes regarded as pretty, are ugly and degenerate to the working people." Banners flaunted high, red-and-gold streamers clutched in their hands, the emancipated women of Red China cried back their full-throated approval: "What was beautiful is now ugly! What was ugly...
...five months older than Margaret), Tony Armstrong-Jones is slender, volatile, charming in manner, and not very much taller than his bride-to-be (5 ft. 2 in.). He is not stuffy, and not particularly intellectual either. His flat in unfashionable Pimlico has a laundry on one side and an antique shop on the other, and his friends come chiefly from bohemian Chelsea, Fleet Street, and the theater and fashion world. For two years Tony's great and good friend was a sloe-eyed Chinese model named Jackie Chan (now playing a "yum-yum girl" prostitute in the London...
...Africans. Except on trips, Mboya has little time these days for the nightclubs and dancing he loves (he once shook the maracas in a dance band), or for the many girl friends, not all of them African, whom Tom has always attracted. His current flame is Pamela Odede, 21, slender, poised, and graceful daughter of Tom's former K.A.U. chief, Walter Odede (who after seven years is still being held without trial). They were secretly engaged long before she left last September for Western College in Oxford, Ohio, where she is a junior on a scholarship arranged...
...effects of cutting and lighting are often spectacularly inappropriate. But somehow the vital extravagance of the film engages the spectator and whirls him along in its whirling mood. This mood is personified in Heroine Samoilova, an astonishingly imaginative young actress who is the type of Tolstoy's Natasha-slender, dark, expressive as a flame...
...Japanese. Hinted one Seoul official: "Why not employ Korean stewardesses?" Last week Northwest announced that it will hire one or two Korean stewardesses, expects to start testing comely college graduates this month. Applicants, said Northwest, must speak English and Japanese, be less than 27, "should have a nice, slender figure, lots of charm, no glasses -and no gold or silver front teeth...