Word: girling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Miss Krenwinkel was a shy and chubby adolescent growing up in a respectable section of Los Angeles. A friend recalled her as "a quiet and very sensitive girl who kept all her feelings to herself. She didn't like to see anybody get hurt. I remember once we were talking about one of the guys we know who enjoyed killing cats. She broke into tears." Her parents separated when she was in high school. In 1967, after meeting Manson, she rejected the "straight" world so suddenly that she left her car in a parking lot, quit her job without...
...committed, almost simultaneously scores a smash hit in his first book show and takes up with a nymphomaniac tramp ("I don't know why, John, you see I was reaching for something ... I was all mixed up. Success, disaster-I had everything"). Eventually, he finds the right girl but is so gun-shy that she marries someone else; then he pursues her until she gets a divorce after he is sued for alienation of affections in a headline scandal. He marries her, has two kids, continues as a Broadway star, gets on TIME'S cover...
...went back into the adjoining room, and in a few seconds a girl, about 18 years old, emerged. She had a heart-shaped face, and the same olive skin. dark hair, and brown eyes...
...picking her way over wadded bodies and coffee cups and discarded newspapers. "I hardly know her, poor kid. She used to come in every once in a while, then she got onto this guy in the band and I saw her quite a lot." She's the kind of girl that Henry can be friendly to but she's not his type. She's a sucker with a heart of gold...
...couldn't make it very clear. Jenny is a poor girl of Italian extraction, on scholarship at Radcliffe. She plays the harpsichord and is pretty much uninterested in everything else, Winthrop House jocks in particular. Brenda Patimkin in Goodbye Columbus was rich and cool about it, but here Oliver is the rich one-only not cool. Poor Oliver is absolutely taken with Jenny, and, eventually, she with him. The love story is happy this time (after the requisite trials and tribulations). You know this from the very beginning, because the body of the film is a flashback in husband Oliver...