by Reg Green
Trying to find words to convey the allure of Mae West, the quintessential vamp, Truman Capote, in a book I’m reading, gives up on descriptions like hour-glass figure and marble-white skin. Instead, he said, she was ‘the convict’s dream.’
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4 Responses
It’s attitude.
You have obviously studied the subject with care, Carl, but I have to disagree. To me, this is much less a question of mind than of body.
You have obviously studied the subject with care, Carl. But to me, this is much less a question of mind than of body.
She was only 5-ft tall. That’s why Mae could get dressed so quickly.