Word: bardot
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...Commonwealth-had gone to the polls not so much to vote in a new constitution as to vote out an old. What united Frenchmen as dissimilar as Hubert Beuve-Méry, neutralist publisher of Le Monde, and the royalist pretender, the Comte de Paris, Prince Napoleon and Brigitte Bardot, cloistered Carmelite nuns and a nameless million voters who had previously backed the Communists, was an intense desire to be rid of the ungoverned and ungovernable past. It was a vote against twelve years of muddle, against 25 governments that had fallen one by one, against the "system" that...
...terrific following among members of the Beat Generation. He loves the adulation of a mob. After that, going home to a family must seem humdrum." Thus the handy Beat Generation label, a device more literary than lifelike that has been applied to everything from Godot* to Bardot, was formally pinned on Brando. But the experts disagreed violently about whether the actor with the sweatshirt and the lyric lunkishness really could boast the credentials of a true beatnik. Certain habits are in his favor: he has been known to greet visitors in his underwear, date hash-house waitresses, play the bongo...
...Parisienne (French). Brigitte Bardot, leaning voluptuously on the sure comic talents of Charles Boyer and Henri Vidal, finally makes a film that is as funny as it is fleshy...
...TIME, Sept. 1), Director Stanley Kubrick and Producer James B. Harris gambled $150,000 that they will find an answer. "Basically," said Kubrick, "this story is a very funny character relationship." Hollywood wags saw one solution: make the principals a few years older and cast Maurice Chevalier opposite Brigitte Bardot...
...Parisienne. Brigitte Bardot, leaning voluptuously on the sure comic talents of Charles Boyer and Henri Vidal, finally makes a film that is as funny as it is fleshy (TIME, July...