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Word: vadim (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Police grabbed Viktor Shashkin, 19, an awkward, gangling youth with big, vacant eyes; Vadim Vorobiev, 17, with a dangling forelock and a crooked smile that revealed a gold cap set on a healthy tooth-a standard affectation of the stilyagi; Igor Kostiuk, known as "Harry,"* and pockmarked Viktor Sergeev. Usually, by Russian definition stilyagi are the no-good children of the well-to-do-"spoiled brats with plenty of money, time on their hands, a doting mother, father's Pobeda car." But all four of these youths, workers at the Moscow ball-bearing plant, came from workers' families...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Zoot-Suiters in Moscow | 11/3/1958 | See Source »

France's Cinemacaroon Brigitte (And God Created Woman) Bardot, who won a 1957 Victoire (France's Oscar), proved the infinite ingenuity of the French in inventing new human relationships. She offered to be the godmother of a baby girl born to her ex-husband, Director Roger Vadim, and a Danish model one day after he and Brigitte were divorced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 23, 1957 | 12/23/1957 | See Source »

Divorced. Brigitte ("BB") Bardot, 23, cinema's toothsome French pastry (And God Created Woman, Please! Mr. Balzac), and French film Writer-Producer Roger Vadim, 29; after three years of marriage; in a Paris court that found each "equally guilty of seriously insulting" the other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 16, 1957 | 12/16/1957 | See Source »

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