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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: En Garde/ | 1/29/1973 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 5, 1971 | 4/5/1971 | See Source »

POOR COW. Carol White plays slob and sexpot, worried mum and girl in love, in this saga of life in a scruffy London slum, a first film by 30-year-old TV Director Kenneth Loach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Mar. 22, 1968 | 3/22/1968 | See Source »

POOR COW. Carol White plays slob and sexpot, worried mum and girl in love, in this saga of scruffy life in a London slum, a first film by 30-year-old TV Director Kenneth Loach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Mar. 15, 1968 | 3/15/1968 | See Source »

...migré from TV. She invites inevitable comparison with Julie Christie; Producer Janni "discovered" both of them, and there is a notable physical resemblance. Miss White's range as an actress remains to be tested, but the gamut she runs here is already fairly long-slob and sexpot, worried mother and girl in love. She is totally convincing as a woman who can find a bit of fun and some fatuous hope by riding with the punches-whether they come from Fate or some other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Movies: Poor Cow | 2/9/1968 | See Source »

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