Word: bb
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...five-year-old sits on the floor comparing the sounds of rattles filled with sand and BB shot. Another carefully spoons dried beans from a full bowl into an empty one. Four children tell stories to a teacher, who writes them down on a large pad. Sample: "The tiger is under the bed. He is playing rough. The tiger is wild. He is very happy...
This latest role for BB was conceived and executed by Asian (Alain Gourdon), a French artist who once won the Grand Prix de Rome for his sculpture, and now sometimes draws magazine pinup girls. While vacationing in Thiron-Gardais, Asian decided to try his hand at sculpting a new Marianne, who has been reconceived a number of times since she was first created in 1848. Says Asian: "All the Mariannes invariably have a Greek profile. It's ridiculous to have a Greek god dess representing the French Republic. Automatically, the image of Brigitte Bardot imposed itself on my spirit...
...says Asian, BB's new bust has supplanted ten old Mariannes in mayors' offices around France, at a cost of $105 each. Installing a bust of Brigitte at his party's headquarters in Paris, Radical Party Politician Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber said: "We should be proud of her, of Roquefort cheese and of Bordeaux wine. They are the products that bring us the most profit." Andre Malraux, the celebrated author and former Minister of Culture, asked for and was sent a copy...
...manufacturers have received a few complaining letters, including one that scolded: "You cannot rank the Republic and this person together." Nonetheless, BB's bust is expected to become a priority item in mayors' budgets-after this week's municipal elections are over. In return for lending her figure to France, Bardot has been given one of the busts and has mounted it over...
Despite Blanchard's BB-shot analogy, the fact remains that minute amounts of auto-exhaust lead, when added to the lead taken into the body from other sources, can cause serious injury and even death. Industrial wastes add lead to drinking water and children sometimes eat leaded paint peelings. Concentrations of only .8 parts per million can cause illness. Children are especially susceptible to lead poisoning because their toxicity level is only .6 p.p.m. Thus far, concentrations of .25 p.p.m. have been found in some residents of vehicle-clogged cities, where airborne lead is thickest. In New York City...