Word: aviatrix
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...that, in every recent year divisible by five, Swank has won the Academy Award for Best Actress: in 2000 for Boys Don,t Cry and 2005 for Million Dollar Baby. Numerology suggested another Swank statuette in 2010. But who, exactly, was supposed to pay to see her as The Aviatrix? Earhart's plane was lost in the mid-Pacific 72 years ago, making octogenarians the target demographic. Amelia didn't premiere at the Venice or Toronto film festivals, as many Oscar hopefuls do; and it earned a scathing 17% score from the Rotten Tomatoes survey of critics, who might otherwise...
...mother/daughter thing. Their mothers called themselves feminists, so the daughters, in an attempt to distinguish themselves, have to call themselves something else. I think it's mostly terminology, that any terminology associated with women sooner or later becomes degraded. An executrix is laughable, an executor is not. An aviatrix is not as strong as an aviator. It has to do with the sexism that is in our society and often is unconscious. (See pictures of the 20th century's greatest romances...
...play depicts a nouveau-riche family, the Tarletons, who has made its fortune selling underwear. When the Polish aviatrix, Lina Szczepanowska, drops out of the sky and into their home, their apparently banal existence is disrupted. Besides a few tangential plot twists--such as the miscellaneous antics of a son bent on revenge, an oversexed daughter and an amorous Lord--the play is a drawing-room comedy and consists mainly of idle conversation...
...true-blue Cockney. He has the reverence for learning of a man whose own education has been rudimentary, and he gleefully refers to Ibsen, Walt Whitman and Kipling with would be casualty. Unashamedly unfaithful to his wife, he has no qualms about attempting to seduce the dashing Polish aviatrix who has dropped into his greenhouse, and into his "evergreen heart...
...aviatrix, played by Candy Buckley, manages the part quite well, given the rather stereotyped "fearless Nadia" role that Shaw created for her. With her contempt for the romantic, her functional masculine clothing and her lithe, muscular body, she is not so much a character as a symbol of Shaw's perfect woman...