Word: frigid
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...hard to pillpoint: The book is dedicated to the author's poodle Josephine, but animal lovers will not find much else to cry over. The story is human--all about the hell of show biz and the perils of excessive mammary development. Anne Welles, a small-town girl and frigid Radcliffe graduate, escapes her destiny of "shrivelling into another New England old maid" by coming to The Big City. In New York she melts into the arms of a handsome English writer and becomes a TV commercial star a la Betty Furness...
...with leaves of -- you guessed it -- gold. Portia appears in a peach gown (designed, like all the other costumes, by Jose Varona) and carrying a parasol. It is not long before we realize that this Portia, in the hands of Barbara Baxley, is a thoughtless, superficial woman, and probably frigid to boot. Miss Baxley's nasal and mindless mode of speaking doesn't help much, either; she constitutes no improvement over Katharine Hepburn, who was so disastrous a Portia in the Festival's 1957 production...
...streets. The Finn's first love remains the sauna bath. More than half a million families have their own private steam rooms, where temperatures rise to 275°F as the bather briskly whips his body with wet birch branches before dashing out and leaping into a frigid lake or snow bank. The sauna is said to develop the quality of sisu-a combination of courage, stamina, tenacity and stubbornness. Sisu indeed is Finland-and is perhaps the reason why it still exists...
...past six o'clock and frigid as the first two doubles matches moved into overtime in their third sets. Levin and Jarvis (one) dropped their first set to Yale's outstanding senior duo of Waltz and Brooks but fought back from a 4-1 deficit to take the second, 10-8. Adelsberg and Davis (two) had won their opener, 6-2, but dropped the second...
Much of the poster spotting for the outside world is done by the nine Japanese reporters based in Peking. There are always more fresh posters each morning than all of them together can track down in a single day, and Peking's frigid winter is not conducive to street-corner translating. Result: some of the Japanese now photograph promising posters with their Polaroid cameras, then return to the warmth of their offices to translate them. Curious to see the mysterious poster warriors at work, one Japanese correspondent prowled Peking with a flashlight night after night. Although he was very...