Word: skintight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...golden hair still swooped provocatively over one eye, her skintight, beaded gown glittered as brightly as ever, and if her face had begun to show her 66 years, her voice remained full of the old husky magic. Indeed, when Marlene Dietrich returned to Broadway for a six-week engagement, the only thing that was different from last year's show was the opening number, a torchy ballad called Look Me Over Closely. Not that anybody in the theater waits for her invitation...
...already ailing economy, factory laborers relit blast furnaces and returned to their work benches. The 10 p.m.-to-5 a.m. curfew was lifted. Nightclubs and cinemas reopened. One showed My Fair Lady, but another slyly screened The Good Soldier Schweik. Svelte bar girls in scalloped miniskirts or skintight trousers flitted through the cocktail lounge at Prague's Esplanade Hotel. The juggler was even back in action at Prague's Tetran club, though he tended to drop more plates than usual...
...truth, Dietrich doesn't do badly for a 65-year-old grandmother-even though she stands on stage as rigidly expressionless as Ed Sullivan, and the famed husky voice is now both thin and strident. Molded into a $30,000 skintight, flesh-colored gown, however, she can still give the illusion of youth, at least across the footlights. And there is the illusion of sex as she glances at the balcony while chanting a self-mocking version of The Laziest Gal in Town...
...SCENE FOUR. Jane Ormsby Gore, 23, daughter of the former British Ambassador to the U.S., and a fashion assistant on British Vogue. Clad in tightly fitted, wine-red flared Edwardian jacket over a wildly ruffled white lace blouse, skintight, black bell-bottom trousers, silver-buckled patent leather shoes, ghost-white makeup and tons of eyelashes, she pops in to a cocktail party, not unlike the one Julie Christie goes to in Darling, at Robert Eraser's art gallery on Duke Street. There she sees Fashion Designer Pauline Fordham in a silver metallic coat, Starlet Sue Kingsford...
Love Potion No. 9. The American presence is felt in ways other than the military. In Korat's swinging nightspots (ranging from the Pizza Palace to the Playboy Bar), crew-cut G.I.s dance with Thai girls in skintight trousers and bouffant hairdos that glint with Helene Curtis spray (a top PX item despite the fact that no American military dependents are allowed in Thailand). Ubiquitous transistors thrum with American pop tunes (current favorite: Love Potion No. 9), and such examples of American cuisine as cheeseburgers and chicken-in-the-basket now grace the menus in Udorn. The U.S. Army...