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...plot about a team of carnival song-and-dance girls, both named Maria, touring the fleshpots of a mythical Central American republic in 1907. Enhancing a collection of dazzling period costumes, they inspire lust-and frequently satisfy it-from stop to stop. They invent the striptease, seizing with girlish delight upon a gaping seam and a stubborn snap as though the benefits to mankind might rival the discovery of radium. Finally, they fall jointly in love with a doomed revolutionary (George Hamilton) and continue to inflame the peasantry in his name. As Maria I, Moreau drolly helps the cause...
...Girlish glee goes with grim ideology in Bettina. "Everyone said we were finks for supporting Johnson in 1964," she says, but Communists had to back L.BJ. because "Goldwater was a neofascist." Now she says that "President Johnson and Secretary of Defense McNamara and the whole damned Administration are hypocrites and liars and have betrayed the American people...
Poor Gavin. The time is the late '30s, and the angels talk so much that he can seldom get a word in. And what would he say anyhow? He has failed his exams, so he cannot go to the university. He hates his own "girlish hands and all beaked nose thrusting out blindly like a day-old bird's." He is a Roman Catholic in dull bourgeois Belfast, where the "papist" minority moves with silent loathing among the majority Protestants -"the Prods." In short he feels doomed, and no one disputes his judgment. Not his solicitor father...
...Broadway production of The Disenchanted. The British-born, India-reared actress stars in War and Peace and Judith, plays Violet in Man and Superman at alternate performances, and she has left her mark. Her throaty, caressing voice purrs its way through her lush figure and emerges with girlish guilelessness from Natasha and passionate intensity from Judith, all the while giving the impression that it never really changed...
...actuality, Miss Levine is a student at Radcliffe College, one of the "heavenly seven" sister schools to the Ivy League. Her connection with the yang world of Harvard is dubious at best. In consequence, her candidacy represents a piece of girlish bufoonery that the CRIMSON, and seniors the college wide, have no choice but to deprecate...