Word: bustings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mayor's office of the small town of Thiron-Gardais near Chartres, young couples exchange wedding vows beneath a bust of Marianne, the ubiquitous symbol of the Republic of France. But the long familiar statue now has a new and different look. Although she still wears the customary Phrygian hat, her habitually austere visage has been replaced by a generous mouth and her torso by an even more generous cleavage. The face and figure, done in white plaster with bronze patinas, are unmistakably those of Brigitte Bardot...
...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...
Cambridge police arrested Andrew M. Wilson '72 at 9:15 p.m. last night in his third-floor room in Briggs Hall for possession of marijuana-the first such bust at Harvard in at least ten years...
...Harvard police learned of the planned bust only when Cambridge officers appeared at the Harvard police station with a warrant and asked that they accompany them to make the arrest...
...been enjoying ourselves immensely this spring. Guessing games and puzzlers are always fun and just when things seem to be on the downturn along comes another challenge. We were right about the Ali-Frazier fight, although we did not wish it that way, but we were wrong about the bust of Women's Lib at the architecture building. And now another guessing game is at hand...