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When Marilyn Monroe huskily breathed her way through Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend, she was putting into words an upscale approach to love, marriage and infidelity that insisted on a currency of carbon. Similar superstars, from Ethel Merman, Jayne Mansfield and Elizabeth Taylor to Vivienne Blaine and Elaine Stritch, acted out the showbiz cliché that guys must always pay for their pleasures.
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