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Word: boudoirs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...small towns of France, where apparently a Madame Bovary is still born every minute, and the heroine, who will seem to U.S. audiences no more than a roundheeled dunce, has become a national heroine of the French ''a sort of Joan of Arc of the boudoir...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Wave Rolls On | 1/25/1960 | See Source »

Hollywood's Jack Warner saw the movie and brought the beautiful young man to Hollywood, where he promptly came to the attention of Lili Damita, a star of second magnitude who earned his admiration with her "glorious boudoir art." One night Lili stood on a window sill and threatened to jump if Flynn refused to make an honest woman of her. Flynn gave in, made a $2 deposit on a venture that cost him more than $1,000,000 in alimony before he died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOLLYWOOD: 14,001 Nights | 1/4/1960 | See Source »

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