Word: bardot
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...Origin. In a transport of sedimentality, Lugan rhapsodized to newsmen that "the wines of 1960 are like Zizi Jeanmaire-nervous and muscled, but not full-bodied and rounded. The wines of '61 will be like Mae West-a Rubens woman to whom one can add nothing; a Bardot wine, if you like-round and appealingly plump." Or, to put it less plumply, "1961 is a black Rolls-Royce complete with a uniformed chauffeur, while last year was just another vulgar convertible...
...Brigitte Bardot and Pablo Picasso excel in their arts, share alliterative names, dote on the South of France and enjoy worldwide fame-and that is not all they have in common. BB, when clothed, often wears a silver circle necklace with a pendant of Venetian crystal. PP, when he puts on a shirt, sports a pair of silver cuff links adorned with delicately hued beach pebbles. The jewelry is the work of a lithe Swedish girl named Torun Bulow-Hube, who lives with her husband in the tiny Riviera village of Biot and is known to a growing coterie...
...Gutsy Bardot. As Kundry in Parsifal, Mezzo Soprano Dalis came close to fulfilling Wieland Wagner's concept of the character as ''a neurotic in the first act. Brigitte Bardot in the second, and a hospital nurse in the third." Dalis has a theory that she can catch Kundry's tempestuous passions more effectively if she does not vocalize before going onstage, thus retaining a certain gutsy quality in her voice. Last week her theory worked just fine: the voice had a raw, fitfully feverish cast, but it never became ugly or strident. Tenor Thomas was less...
...girl vintage looks promising. It has some of the heavy and full-bodied characteristics of the '52s and '57s (Monroe, Bardot), a hint of the dry classicism of certain '37s (Vivien Leigh), and may even show some of the sparkling ambition of the '53s (Grace Kelly). Sample tastes...
...beachwear, is an outfit of very low-slung slacks combined with a bolero. The slacks are ankle-tight around the hips and finger-tight around the ankles. They start below the waistline, and thus have earned a special euphemism among English-speaking tourists: the BB look, not for Brigitte Bardot, but for belly button...