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Here's what happens. Dona Flor (Sonia Braga) is a lovely and virtuous young widow who marries a dull fellow, the local pharmacist (Mauro Mendonca). To her pretty confusion, the ghost of her randy first husband Vadinho (Jose Wilker) returns to torment her. He was a cad, a drunk and a gambler, who dropped dead from too much carnival carousing, and his only redeeming quality was that he was good at lovemaking. Death has not reformed him, and in his scapegrace way he tries to get her into bed. She is tempted, but refuses, saying that it would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Knee Slapper | 5/1/1978 | See Source »

Weren't the see-throughs enough? Now Sonia Rykiel wants us to let it all hang out. Outrageous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 28, 1977 | 11/28/1977 | See Source »

...Sonia Kobrin North Dartmouth, Mass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 7, 1977 | 11/7/1977 | See Source »

...little girl," recalls Sonia Rykiel, "my mother always used to tell me, 'Keep your knees together like a lady!' She was always saying, 'Don't do this or that!' " Sonia, who today is a top Pa risian designer of ready-to-wear fashion, no longer has to worry about Maman's comments. But in the French fashion industry's showings of spring clothes last week, some of her new numbers did not seem cal culated to endear her to too many other women ? though they should cause countless male eyes to go into orbit and may well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Put-Ons, Take-Offs and Dress-Ups | 11/7/1977 | See Source »

Rykiel, "my mother always used to tell me, 'Keep your knees together like a lady!' She was always saying, 'Don't do this or that!' " Sonia, who today is a top Parisian designer of ready-to-wear fashion, no longer has to worry about Maman's comments. But in the French fashion industry's showings of spring clothes last week, some of her new numbers did not seem calculated to endear her to too many other women ?though they should cause countless male eyes to go into orbit and may well tie up traffic wherever?or if ?they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Put-Ons, Take-Offs and Dress-Ups | 11/7/1977 | See Source »

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