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Article: Belle of the nineties. (movie star Mae West)
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- May 1, 1997
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Mae West made sex synonymous with her name, and in the process, provided the censors with a new target. In her new book, Emily Wortis Leider examines West's transformation from Brooklyn baby to American icon. Here's a sneak peek, plus a few words from another taboo-terrorizer, The Lady Bunny
Legendary "beauty" Mae West was actually a little too plump to work the flapper's boyish silhouette favored by her contemporaries, a reality she compensated for by setting many of her vehicles around the turn of the century. This enabled her to streamline her famed figure with heavily-boned corsets and platform shoes, the latter obscured by trains and fishtails adorning her ...