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...wide screen in full color looms an eye approximately the size of a swimming pool. The next shot: gargantuan lips. The blonde hair is a veldt of tangled desires; the whited torso stands out like Gibraltar. Put them all together, they form Brigitte Bardot, back again in an epidermoid epic directed by her first husband Roger Vadim (And God Created Woman). For those who may have missed BB on earlier outings, Vadim-apparently reminiscing-offers the Grand Tour. He photographs her frontwards, backwards, sideways, closeup, long view, and from above, through what appears to be a hole in the ceiling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bust | 1/3/1964 | See Source »

...gets lung cancer and what type he gets may depend partly on constitutional factors, suggested Dr. Sheldon C. Sommers of La Jolla. The commonest form (epidermoid bronchogenic carcinoma) is associated not only with irritation from industrial fumes or heavy smoking, but also with a high level of male sex hor mones in the patients. Adenocarcinoma, less common, is the usual form in women and in men with high outputs of female hormones. A third type, called "oat-cell" or undifferentiated, occurs in men whose adrenal glands put out an excess of corti sone-type hormones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cancer: Progress Reports | 3/16/1962 | See Source »

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