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...calcium and perfect for dyeing wool. Dyeing sheds, with skeins of wool in every shade and color hanging outside to dry in the warm sun, cling to its banks. A more romantic reason for Aubusson's destiny is the fact that it lay in the heart of the troubadour country during the days when chivalry was in flower and found its grand expression in tapestry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Heroic Art | 8/31/1962 | See Source »

...French Troubadour Yves Montand has a bedroom voice in a truck driver's body. His throaty baritone undresses every noun, verb and parenthetical clause that comes slithering past his lips. With hips cocked, eyes squinted against some inner sunburst of passion, and hands expressively molding the air, Montand is one of the most potent love potions ever poured across the footlights. But Montand has more than sex appeal buttoned under his dark brown open-necked shirt. He is a one-man theater of the performing arts, an expert mimic, a clown, a barometric actor who can shift moods, weather...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: French Eros | 11/3/1961 | See Source »

Continuing an old French bedroom farce, Parisian Director Roger Vadim sadly announced that he will divorce his second wife, Danish-born Cinemactress Annette Stroyberg, because she is spending all her time with Sacha Distel, the same guitar-strumming troubadour who once paid court to Vadim's first wife, Cinemactress Brigitte Bardot. But that wasn't all: BB's current marriage to nervous Cinemactor Jacques Charrier is reported to be on the skids, and BB of late has longed aloud for Vadim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 18, 1960 | 7/18/1960 | See Source »

...Yukon Troubadour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 20, 1958 | 10/20/1958 | See Source »

...HEMISPHERE, The Yukon Troubadour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Sep. 22, 1958 | 9/22/1958 | See Source »

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