Word: toreadors
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...foreigners resisted-not even the German woman who was told off by police for wearing toreador pants and bare midriff, nor the American girl in a bikini chased from the Fountain of Trevi. But Communist newspapers raised a hue and cry about "clerical intolerance," and some of Italy's leading non-Communist papers joined in. Said Turin's liberal La Stampa: "The truth is, not many Italians are horrified by the sight of a girl in shorts." Added the largest newspaper in Italy, Milan's conservative Corriere della Sera, "They are proposing tourism in long pants...
What the audience at Seattle's Colony Club saw in the spotlight was a little (4 ft. 11 in.) button-nosed Nisei girl in toreador pants and white coat, with a pony tail that hung below her shoulders. What they heard when she began to sing was a booming, brassy voice that all but rattled the ice in the highballs. After the rousing chorus of Anything Goes, she slipped into a slow and smoky Fine and Dandy with a voice which she seemed to have husked up from somewhere in the floor. She was clean and limber...
...direction they could respect. From the Americans they took only the easy externals. Their uniform is as standard as that of a geisha: the "Shintaro" crew cut and aloha sports shirts for the men, with loose-flowing Byronic shirts, zoot coats and pointed suede shoes for city wear; toreador pants for the girls with hair cut like a mop and often dyed red; and over all, an attitude of abandonment and deep to-hell-with-it cynicism...
Omnibus (Sun. 9 p.m., ABC) Barnaby Conrad's Manolete, the Greatest Toreador...
...designer tumbling in after her. Diana's husband climbed onto dry land first, a baleful look in his eye as he fixed United Press Photographer Stewart Sawyer, 32, bellowing that the lensman had pushed the quartet in so that a fellow photographer could get the picture. Her skintight toreador pants and diaphanous shirt pasted to her most treasured assets, Diana quickly emerged, and screaming "unprintable words" joined her ex-pugilist husband in pummeling the prostrate photographer. The damage: a sprained back for Diana, a fractured right hand for her husband, a swollen nose, numerous bruises and lacerations for Photog...