Word: girl-child
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...services, either as a Himalayan dancing girl in Powell and Pressburger's Black Narcissus (1947) or as Ophelia in Hamlet (1948). The directors finally agreed to rearrange their schedules so Simmons could appear in both films. In Black Narcissus she donned brownface to play the Himalayan girl Kanchi, who performs a wild native dance (it's mostly just running) and gets whipped for her insolence. Simmons's blond-wigged "most beautified Ophelia" is another willful creature, no less flirtatious with her brother Laertes than she is crazy for Hamlet. As a girl-child unable to cope with the roiling emotions...
...destined to become a great artist. Poor Beulah! i A quiet, tiny child, self-immured, she seems to suffer from "an unremitting bewilderment," much like the young Cynthia Ozick, as she recalls herself. In the novel, Ozick has reserved some of her most luminous prose to endow this girl-child with tender life. Though bursting with irony and wit, The Cannibal Galaxy takes on a fearful seriousness when Ozick cites this fragment from the Talmud: "The world rests on the breath of the children in the schoolhouses...
Ostroff's touch is also lyrical ("I see your several faces, sculptured, each/An agony too pale for flesh to bear"), occasionally dramatic, now and then humorous. In Sören-Regina, based on Sören Kierkegaard's love for Regine Olsen, whose girl-child beauty haunted him all his life, he combines all his various talents in his wisest answer to the persisting theme of thought v. beauty, mind v. soul: I write, he said. Too stupid to fly, Too impure to do real magic, I, To work the transformation in a wink, Must painfully and tediously...
...days before Lolita made the girl-child a femme fatale, Barbara was in Chicago, toying with improvised variations on a theme called "Too Tempting to Men" with the Second City theater group. Now, at 25, she is a woman playing a girl, a trick she accomplishes with such hilarity and grace that she has become more tempting than ever. Last week Alan Jay Lerner and Richard Rodgers signed her for the lead in their first musical together, and Sid Caesar is building the first of his new fall TV series around...
Critic Lionel Trilling praised the book, speculated about its satirical intent: "To what end is a girl-child taught . . . to consider the brightness and fragrance of her hair, and the shape of her body, and her look of readiness for adventure? Why, what other end than that she shall be a really capable airline hostess?" In Esquire, Dorothy Parker succumbed to Nabokov's charms before the reader's eyes: "Lolita is a fine book, a distinguished book-all right, then-a great book...