Word: sexpot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...phrases that could be driven out. In the art of politics, coup d'etat might be replaced by kayo, laissez-faire by leave it alone and chauvinist by superpatriot. In the art of love, soiree would give way to the bash, rendezvous to date and femme fatale to sexpot. As for savoir-faire-cool, man. But then, plus ca change...
...those faced by the optimists intent on adapting Vladimir Nabokov's novel to the musical stage. Dropped as "too ripe" was Annette Ferra, 15 (TIME, March 1). Into the role went Denise Nickerson, 13, who opened as the nifty nymphet in Boston last week. "I can play a sexpot as well as anybody," she told an interviewer, but first-night critics had their reservations. Said one: "She smiles and speaks and sings like a sweet ten-year-old, and so when John Neville [the lead actor] makes love to her, or suggests it, he is made to seem...