Word: elfin
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...seven years since he first began soldering his elfin evocations of the machine age, Günter Haese has become one of West Germany's best-known artists. Critics rave about his "artistic equilibrium," trace his lineage to Paul Klee, and dub him "the juggler of modern art." He was given a one-man show at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art in 1964, helped represent West Germany at the 1966 Venice Biennale. Last month his open cube of wire-works and quivering copper balls, Olymp, became one of the four purchase awards winners at the Guggenheim...
...oldest dancer is a stripling of 30 (compared with 40 at the New York City Ballet). Many of the cheers this season, in fact, went to a pair of wet-behind-the-ears gambolers, elfin Robert Blankshine, 18, and athletic Luis Fuente, 21. The company's cheekiness and dramatic flair help strengthen the cause of American ballet by leaps and bounds...
...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...