Word: distaff
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this point, The High Road seems on the verge of becoming a distaff Death in Venice, with another cerebral outsider succumbing to forbidden passion for an enchanting youth. But O'Brien does not bring to this situation any of the doomed morbidity that hovers over Thomas Mann's tale. For one thing, Anna is much too brisk and sensible to believe herself trapped by any fate. And the physical world of the Spanish seacoast is too astonishing to allow prolonged brooding. Remembering misty Ireland and rainy London, Anna is constantly dazzled by the light: "The sun blazed and emphasized everything...
HAVE you despaired of finding a worthy version of that sublime culinary experience known as the frankfurter in a city whose apotheosis of the genre is that distaff monstrosity called the "Fenway Frank...
...distaff side, the featured item for the spring is lots and lots and lots of wool coats, with trickily designed lapels and buttons solely designed solely to distinguish your coat from the thousands of cheaper models hanging in secondhand shops throughout the nation. The window pane checked Ferragomo coat is nice example, particularly when compared to the coccoon coat from Callaghan--an attempt, I guess, to evoke the fond memories of the Stay-Puff Marshmallow...
...script tells of a princess who forswears the company of men to found that obvious oxymoron, a woman's university. Man is proclaimed "nature's sole mistake," and all things male are so despised that the maidens wake to the crowing of an "accomplished hen." Complications arise in this distaff paradise, however, when it is revealed that the Princess had been betrothed at the age of one to a Prince Hilarion (Paul Moreax...
...never on screen with Cooke, one of the great missed movie opportunities of many years. For his part, Cooke almost succeeds in catalyzing some comic chemistry with the self-absorbed Dunaway, but he is never on screen long enough to succeed. Hart Bochner plays Ethan, a sort of distaff Lois Lane, with as much quirky nervousness as Margot Kidder brought to Lane. The chubby Vaccarro seems to be the only veteran comfortable with her part, which entirely consists of insults and sarcastic variations on "Gee whiz, Selena...