Word: bardot
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...Russ roams into antiquity for some of his metaphors, characterizing Babette Bardot (featured player in Meyer's "Mondo Topless" and "Common Law Cabin") as "a blonde-tressed voluptua with dimensions not unlike Etruscan sculpture." And then, still not flagging 1163 pages into the opus, he unfurls this description of cheesecake model Letha Weapons and her 36H bra: "Big boobs bolstered by a breast hammock based on the principle that made the Sydney Opera House feasible...
...international operations: "There's a feeling we want to come through in the copywriting when it's translated." For a women's gingham-check swimsuit, marketed to French customers, Berlitz modified the catalog copy to read, "L'effet B.B. assure!" (the B.B. look guaranteed!), a reference to Brigitte Bardot, who made gingham fashionable...
...There was the time in the sixties, the professor could say, when Brigid Bardot and I were at our summer place in Antibes, and an urgent call came through from the White House, from Lyndon Johnson's special assistant, Mike Montaigne. Victor Charlie was on the warpath. The Tet offensive had just erupted. Numbah Ten! The President needed the me in Saigon, yesterday!, to cut orders from MAC-V to I-Corps and retake the Imperial City of Hue. The President himself came on the line: "Son, you tell Westy he can't make an omelet without breaking...
...American in Paris," "Around the World in Eighty Days," "The Bridge on the River Kwai," "Gigi" and "Ben-Hur" - were shot abroad. Remember too that Marilyn and Jayne weren't the only sex symbols crashing in the '50s; it was also the time of Sophia Loren, Gina Lollobrigida, Brigitte Bardot. And the movies' all-time entrancer, an Anglo-Dutch princess named Edda Kathleen van Heemstra Hepburn-Ruston - Audrey Hepburn...
Names of groups formed by various national editions of “Popstars”: Eden’s Crush (U.S.), Bardot (Australia), Hear’Say (Britain), Sugar Jones (Canada), True Bliss (New Zealand). The fact that none of these groups have been particularly successful outside their home countries as of yet might imply that without the drama of TV they are, how do you say, crap...