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...year-old American schoolteacher who met Gauthier and Leclerc in his Hong Kong hotel last January, went to dinner with them, then returned to their hotel room at the new harbor-front Sheraton. Six days later he was found in a drugged stupor, wandering in his underwear in the hotel corridor. His only recollection: "I felt very dizzy, and I realized I needed help." His passport and money were gone...
...medalists, was their lot at home. Their refrain became a familiar-and unsettling-one at the Games. "America expects its athletes to wave a flag and win a medal every four years," complained Discus Champion Mac ("Wolfman") Wilkins. "But then you're supposed to take off that silly underwear and go out and make a decent living." Long-Jump Winner Arnie Robinson, whose wife Cynthia held down two jobs so that he could devote the past three years to training, warned, "There will be some big surprises in 1980, when we win even less than we did this year...
Around 7:30 the following evening, 24 hours after the empty bus had been found, a startled watchman at a gravel quarry near Livermore, 100 miles northwest of Chowchilla, saw a bedraggled group-all in their underwear-approaching him. The kidnaping victims had been found, and all were well...
Total Amateur. But when she allows herself to look back on how things were during the three years it took to write Ordinary People, cleverness and common sense struggle with a kind of Erma Bombeck rue. "Nobody had any underwear," she recollects. "Truth to tell, my family is very tolerant. But some days I'd look at the house and think it was a mess and say to myself 'Why are you doing this?' " She wrote in the mornings when the house emptied, never at night. And rarely in the summer because the boys were...
...terms of the sales; sex became more blatant and the advertising industry naturally kept pace. Now that a kiss usually promises more than a kiss, we have advertisements for women's clothing that wink slyly, "What to wear on Sunday when you won't be home till Monday," and underwear ads that murmur, "You owe it to your audience." And we have a new movie about a top fashion model who sells lipstick so seductively that she is brutally raped by a young man who takes her lip-smacking photographs to heart...