Word: strapping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Preparing herself for Harlow, she is dutifully smoking through a cigarette holder, dropping a shoulder strap, seeing all of Harlow's movies, and reading everything that has been written about her. "I'm going to try to capture her importance-her image on the screen," says Carroll Baker. "And as far as the insides go, I don't think it will be that hard. There's not much difference in women who suffer...
Golden Girl. Another hidebound type is Britain's strapping Honor Blackman, 37, who became celebrated for the array of leather suits, jackets, trench coats and boots that she sported in a Freudian private-eye TV series called The Avengers. As a result, so many women demanded leather garments in Britain that the price of shoes went up. Honor plays Pussy Galore, the leather-sheathed leader of an Amazonian flying circus, in Goldfinger, the new James Bond thriller. Another face from Britain in Goldfinger belongs to Shirley Eaton, 27, blonde alumna of endless Carry On . . . comedies. No leather for Shirley...
...After seeing your picture of the topless bathing suit [June 26], I can easily guess what comes next: the gownless evening strap...
However, there are sandals and there are sandals. In Manhattan, Greenwich Village's cowhide standard will still raise eyebrows north of 59th Street; only on very special feet will they get by a doorman with class or a headwaiter with vision. But the introduction of the spaghetti strap and the low, more graceful heel has turned a little item into big business, earned fashion's acclaim and the blessings of women everywhere who have spent all the summers of their lives struggling into nylon stockings and old-style, cover-up pumps-all for the sticky sake of decency...
...sheriff's deputy is a pointedly jolly individual, known to joke and giggle while in the process of beating a prisoner with his five-pound strap or shoving him into the tiny black steam-heated solitary 'hotbox' cell. The only thing which seems to upset his routine of chuckling brutality is the presence of "Freedom Riders" (He manages to make it sound like an obscenity). He doesn't like...