Word: girlish
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...after our debate (in which we came to no conclusive agreement), a dissent to a Crimson staff editorial, written by David B. Lat '96 and G. Brent McGuire '96 opened with the lines, "We find it strange that in their girlish enthusiasm for Ted Kennedy, the staff neglects to mention..." ("Vote for None of the Above," Opinion...
...objects such as musical instruments and bottles. None of the women stare out at the viewer. Even Amedeo Modigliani's Portrait of a Girl, which is the only complete frontal portrait in the show, has eyes covered with aquamarine paint, making her eyeslits seem like precious stones. As girlish as she looks, she seems on the verge of womanhood. Picasso's Woman in a Turkish Costume dissects the sitter and renders her face with the same ostentation as her costume...
...find it strange that in their girlish enthusiasm for Ted Kennedy, the staff neglects to mention the senator's outstanding swimming ability and his prodigious influence in the courts of Florida. Despite these oft-forgotten talents, we cannot bring ourselves to support America's oldest embarrassment...
...They [the opposing team] beat us out, but not as significantly as they would have liked to," Harrell explains. "Each team has its own personality, and they weren't sportsmanlike. They were very bitter. . . they lashed out, saying we were a little too girlish...
...Gary Cooper and Cary Grant.) It's true that in East of Eden a whore calls out to Dean, "Hello, pretty boy." And yes, he was pretty: slight and muscular, his body compact, his face beautiful, seraphic, smudged, sleepy-eyed and quite American. Yet his appeal was not the girlish winsomeness of a catamite. It was the lost soul of the postwar teen, glamourized for the movies. In '50s film, that looked revolutionary. Today it just looks brilliant. Dean was important not only for what he represented but also for what he achieved: a delicacy that grounded his anger...