Word: trojans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Take a coke-snorting smuggler, a crooked Army quartermaster, a deceptively dippy hooker and a smooth-talking expert in alarm systems. Add a bank, ultramodern European and defiantly burglarproof. The hooker is greedy, the alarms expert larcenous and the bank eminently susceptible to a shrewd variation on the Trojan-horse tactic...
Maternity clothes have always been designed like the Trojan horse: to hide, disguise and deceive. The wider the dress, the more pleats and folds, the less identifiable the condition-or so traditional pregnancy fashions would have it seem. Lately, however, the shape of things to come has undergone some happy alterations, supplanting voluminous tents and overhanging blouses with jumpsuits and knickers, low-cut evening gowns and even hot pants. Largely through the intervention of the Lady Madonna Maternity Boutique, women can now look great with child...
...force in a university and "show beyond a shadow of a doubt that something important has changed" should be readmitted. "The burden of proof rests exclusively on the student," Deitch said, warning that "failure to take the question of readmissions seriously is by analogy an invitation to bring the Trojan horse back a second time...
...Gaulle regarded London's application to join the Common Market as a Trojan horse that would give the U.S. an entrée to Europe-"the American hand in the British glove," he called it. As a result, he vetoed Britain's application in 1963, setting back the rest of Europe's then bright dreams of eventual political federation...
Indeed it is, but Candice's limited talent has not restrained runaway demands for her services. Now 24, she has starred in eight motion pictures, most of them (The Group, The Sand Pebbles, The Adventurers, Soldier Blue) requiring beauty, a Trojan endurance and little artistry. Offscreen, her talents are so plentiful that they almost drive her to dilettantism. She has modeled, shot photos for Playboy, and written articles for Vogue, Esquire, Cosmopolitan and the Los Angeles Times. In Getting Straight, Co-star Elliott Gould helped unearth a tantalizing shard of acting ability. She received $200,000 for a western...