Word: croning
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...girl lets it be known that she's pregnant, her mother crinkles her sad but wise eyes and says, "You love him very much, don't you?" instead of calling the police. And the abortionist turns out to be a prosperous-looking physician instead of the usual touchless crone with a bent coat-hanger...
...refund the poor olde crone who dropped her glass...
...herself a versatility that all too few American actresses ever achieve. She was all over off-Broadway for several seasons, playing maids and grandmothers ("I'm a great grandmother," she says ambivalently). Since she was a reedy 5 ft. 8 in. tall, she had to start as a crone if she had any hope of becoming an ingenue. She did anything at all, including a production of The Thirteenth God in which the 13 gods onstage regularly outnumbered the audience. Meanwhile, she checked hats at Lindy's, Leon & Eddie's, the Vanderbilt Hotel, the Old Rumanian Restaurant...
...sees in a pretty nurse (Claudia Cardinale) the symbol of purity and later recalls his childhood in a Catholic school, where he was seduced by a middle-aged crone. Mastroianni in Oedipal embrace with his mother is followed by Mastroianni in a harem being lovingly bathed in a vat by all the women in his life. Finally, Mastroianni has a vision that the film he wants to do is about the people he knows, not his fantasies. He dances in a happy ring with his actors and actresses...
...featherbrained Parisian canary (Corinne Marchand) who has just begun to peck the plum of show-business success. As the story starts, the singer is nerving herself to ask a doctor whether or not she has a cancer. Pale with dread, she visits a fortuneteller first and asks the old crone what is in the cards for her. Death is in the cards for her, and the fortuneteller cannot quite conceal the fatal fact...