Word: voile
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sandrine Bonnaire has a peasant sensuality; naked, she looks like the figurehead on a pirate ship. The camera closes in on the stolid planes of her face, and voilà a deep dimple appears incongruously in her left cheek. From wanton to elfin in the flick of an adolescent whim-such are the compelling mysteries of personality. Bonnaire stars as the teen-age Suzanne in this doggedly unsentimental French film from Writer-Director Maurice Pialat. Suzanne's family has stayed together by corseting all hostilities. Then she discovers the power of her own erotic impulse. Overnight, Daddy...
...woman, her back to the camera, is unblushingly and unmistakably nude. Slowly she begins to dress. At last she rises and turns to reveal-voilà!-a bra ($16) and panties ($9) by Berlei USA. So goes the latest milestone in the use of soft-tease hard sell: the first nude TV commercial in the U.S. The 30-second, $40,000 spot premiered last week on the cable USA Network and Cable Health Network, which together reach about 15 million subscribers. Starring in the eye-catching advertisement is Deborah Diehl, 25, a New York City actress whose previous appearances include...
...sort of biological alchemy that abounds in science fiction. Take a trait from one species, genetically transfer it to another species, and voilá!: a hybrid emerges that nature could never have produced. In last week's issue of the British journal Nature, scientists at four American institutions announced that they had actually accomplished this remarkable, first-of-its-kind feat. A gene carrying the DNA code for growth hormone was taken from rats and incorporated into mouse embryos. The result: mice that grew to be nearly twice the normal size. The super-mice not only produced large quantities...
...then taps out the words DISCOS-RENNES. Seconds later the names, addresses and telephone numbers flash on the screen. She then hits another button and an illustrated advertisement appears on the screen. It reads: "Pym's American Bar, dancing nightly, 10 p.m. to 2 a.m., all year round." Voil...
...second bill to be submitted to Parliament next year. But the first step was impressive enough. Said the liberal newspaper Le Quotidien de Paris: "We went to sleep in July in a Jacobin state more in the tradition of the monarchy than of the French Revolution. And voilà, we woke up in August in a decentralized country. What an adventure...