Word: elfin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that exchange, Audrey Hepburn and Albert Finney sum up the film that follows: an adult bedtime story of a couple whose union is constantly going on strike. Abandoning the Givenchy school and the elfin cool, Hepburn is surprisingly good as a Virginia Woolf-cub who has earned her share of scars in the jungle war between the sexes. As her mate, a self-centered architect, Finney is not so fortunate, and seems curiously unsympathetic in helping to turn his marriage into a fray-for-all. Happily, whenever the strife skitters closer to tragedy than comedy, Director Stanley Donen takes...
Brass. He favors soft colors and subtle tailoring, but once in a while he lets go with a really jazzy number in sequins or the sizzling print preferred by Mrs. William Anderson III of Nash ville, Tenn. Newest designer to hit the big league is elfin (5 ft. 8 in.) Chester Weinberg, 35, whose first collection this fall was snapped up by Manhattan's Bergdorf Goodman, Bonwit Teller and Lord & Taylor. Among his early clients: Manhattan Socialite Judy Peabody-and Barbra Streisand...
...movie debut of France's 21-year-old rock-'n'-roll idol, Sylvie Vartan. Playing a yé-yé girl who won't say no, blonde Sylvie is a mildly accomplished comedienne with two oddly spaced front teeth that give her a look of elfin corruption. On the screen, despite a paltry script, she twists her diminutive curves into every parent's nightmare vision of a wayward, irresistible, aggressively precocious teen...
...Helena Rubinstein had the jumble of jewels packed up in manila envelopes and squirreled away under E for emeralds and R for rubies in a locked filing cabinet. No need for all the fuss, though. Three hoods tried to rob her a year before she died last spring, and elfin Helena angrily screamed them out of the bedroom of her Park Avenue triplex. The fabulously ill-kempt collection, amassed over 60 years and often valued at $1,000,000 survived until last week, when all but a dozen of the finest pieces willed to her sisters and niece were sold...
BEETHOVEN: THE COMPLETE VIOLIN AND PIANO SONATAS (4 LPs; Columbia). Released separately over the past few years, these performances by Violinist Zino Francescatti and Pianist Robert Casadesus are now complete. The earlier sonatas are especially fine, for the French artists are marvelously attuned to the lyricism, elfin wit, and inventive refinements of the young Beethoven. Other violinists may play the works more romantically (David Oistrakh on Philips) or more brilliantly (Jascha Heifetz on RCA Victor), but their pianists do not always live up to them, and the understanding partnership of the two virtuosos in the new series is rewarding...