Word: authoress
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weeds are the chinless boys who go to deb dances in England, affairs that a pear-shaped young English authoress describes as hell's boring. Her book is kind of, too. (See BOOKS...
...Visas. The Reds got their first inkling of trouble from Foreign Minister Lima. Fixing the delegation with an icy stare, Lima informed it that "the congress is inopportune" and that there would be no official courtesies forthcoming. Then Moscow reported that Russia's entire delegation-Authoress Vasilevskaya included -had been refused visas without explanation by the Brazilian embassy...
...described in a 1957 novel by Italy's Elsa Morante, the authoress wife of Author Alberto Moravia, Arturo was a brilliant youth whose imagination flashed all the colors of a Rimbaud. As depicted in Damiano Damiani's film version of the book, the boy seems more like the Tom Sawyer of the Tyrrhenian Sea. Nevertheless, his story is touching, and it is interpreted by all three principals with aplomb and sensibility...
...Have Always Lived in the Castle, by Shirley Jackson. An exquisitely subtle look at a household containing a lunatic, a poisoner and a pyromaniac, by an authoress who specializes in making light of the macabre...
Their five children have grown up and left their Connecticut home. Now the shy, long-seclusive Lone Eagle, Charles A. Lindbergh, 60, and his authoress wife Anne Morrow, 56, are building an aerie high on the vineyard-studded slopes of Corsier above Switzerland's Lake Geneva; just below is the villa of Charlie Chaplin, who also enjoys the secluded life. But it will be a year before the two are neighbors. All that is completed on the one-acre plot commanding a view that will please his aviator's eye is the wall that Lindy wants around...