Word: girlhood
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...then mopes in front of the television set, chain-smoking Kools and snacking compulsively. She does bestir herself to cook?a pastime she enjoys and is good at?and occasionally likes to get away for some fishing. But most of her socializing is confined to the small circle of girlhood friends with whom, until a couple of years ago, she spent Wednesday nights skating at the Arcadia Roller Rink...
Female Fellini. Aline Saarinen, nee Bernstein, keeps her work bright, light and informative, without ever making the highbrow seem high-blown. A Phi Beta Kappa from Vassar, whose girlhood goal was to be "intelluptuous," she got a job on Art News "because I could spell Pollaiuolo,"* rose to managing editor in 1944, a year later joined the New York Times as an art critic. While on an assignment in 1952, she interviewed and later married Finnish-born Architect Eero Saarinen (it was her second marriage). After his death eight years later, she appeared on a 1962 CBS special on Lincoln...
...last surviving star of the film), is almost insufferably cloying. Still, the sweep and power of the story are there, the burning of Atlanta remains one of the finest battle scenes ever filmed. Gable never played Gable better, and never was the glowing ideal, or illusion, of fiery Southern girlhood better embodied than by Vivien Leigh...
...frames are showpieces of Gothic craftsmanship, but within the woodcarving can be seen classic marble columns, first tentative annunciation that the new spirit of the Renaissance was beginning to blow through German art. And the Virgin is no longer hieratic and remote; she is instead a distillation of young girlhood and Bavarian beauty...
...depths in her character. Her shifts between excuse and denial of re-starting her dope habit again, or between attacks on James' drinking and a quiet pride in his love are done quickly and smoothly. Her final monolog, in which her mind has floated back to her girlhood at the convent has more power than any of the masculine tirades...