Word: elfin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...title role, Ballerina Margot Fonteyn offered one of the finest characterizations of her career. From the moment she stepped out from behind a grotto, her body elfin, her face sharply kittenish, until she tremulously bestowed the kiss of death on her faithless lover Palemon (ably danced by Michael Somes), her movements had the kind of effortless grace that commanded immediate conviction. At one point, hovering in her lover's arms, she reached down to stroke his hair in a gesture that caught the whole measure of the heroine's innocence and fear. Ondine's weakness...
Born. To Audrey Hepburn, 31. elfin, Brussels-born actress, and Mel Ferrer, 42, peripatetic actor-director: their first child (his fifth), a son; in Lucerne, Switzerland...
...Bridge, N.J. But the plea was not enough for New Jersey's Board of Child Welfare. Last week, in the state's second highest court, the board moved to deny Gloria and Dick Combs's dearest desire-to adopt their foster child, a gay, elfin four-year-old. The board's reason: Alice Marie, according to social workers, is too bright to remain in the Combses' "television-centered" household...