Word: girlish
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...Angels won't be the only ones employing their feminine mystique in theaters. Renee Zellweger gives insanity a girlish charm in Neil LaBute's comedy Nurse Betty (Sept. 8), and in December Nicole Kidman stars as Paris' most seductive courtesan in the postmodern musical Moulin Rouge. Kate Hudson is the heart and soul of Cameron Crowe's coming-of-age movie Almost Famous (Sept. 15), an ode to '70s rock that's already gathering momentum in this year's Oscar race. Helen Hunt is unstoppable this season, romancing Richard Gere in Dr. T & the Women (Oct. 13), starring opposite Kevin...
...does that often these days. But in her public speeches, Karenna can often be as stiff as her father, and girlish too. This has not stopped her fans from imagining a big political future for her. A friend recalls Karenna calling home from Harvard and talking to her younger brother Albert III. He was being badgered about whether he would follow his father and grandfather into the Senate. "I don't know. Why don't you ask my sisters?" he answered. "Yeah, why don't they ask his sisters?" an indignant Karenna said. Not to worry. Pauline, Gore's mother...
...must have a trim and girlish figure...
...wasn't all that trim and girlish either. She was pretty zaftig...
...then there are the enormously silly, explicitly sexual sculptural romps by Jake and Dinos Chapman, whose fascination with genetic mutation leads them down the very foolish path of constructing girlish mannequins with phalluses for noses and sexual orifices in all the wrong places. Hardly Rodin. But then Rodin's Balzac, created just before the turn of the century, wrapped the great French novelist in a cape beneath which, it was said, he was holding his own member in the potent coupling of climax and creative genius. The work outraged its patrons and wasn't cast in bronze until after Rodin...