Word: welched
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fourteen stars participated in the presentation, among them Raquel Welch ("I'm here for visual effects, of which there are two"), John Wayne ("It's my real deep down pleasure to read the list of men nominated for excellence in cinematography"), and Elizabeth Taylor. Fred Astaire took part, too, and Cary Grant was there. The Academy gave him a special award, honoring him for his entire acting career, which they brilliantly memorialized by showing a collection of film clips from his movies-there he was, kissing, talking romantically to, and being slapped by what seemed like hundreds of different actresses...
...championship, the two burly contenders tiptoe to mid-ring and embrace with consummate passion! A new luxury liner turns out to be propelled by a gang of seminude galley slavettes, who bend to the oar under a whip cracked by everyone's favorite sado-maso slave queen, Raquel Welch...
...round, ankle length and so narrowly cut as to be equally hobbling for either sex. Courrèges lowered his sights with a floor-length black vinyl apron atop flaming red briefs. (It is not the most practical outfit, but that did not seem to matter when Raquel Welch modeled it.) Mostly, Courrèges fell back on the old jumpsuits, made of vinyl and stickier than ever, with cutouts cut out wherever the scissors led him-and in one bikini he reached the bottom...
...Instructors gave his style a B to B+, "très joli," his spirit straight A's. "I thought of coming last year," said the sportsman, "but the general was still here." Not General Winter, either. ··· Making more like Mrs. Miniver than Myra Breckinridge, Raquel Welch, of all people, plans to recite the treacly ballad The White Cliffs of Dover ("In a world where England is finished and dead, I do not wish to live") against a bucolic English background for her upcoming TV spectacular. After that, it is off to Mexico to belt out Good...