Word: girlish
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...where honor is traditionally worth more than life-or wife. The villain of the piece is a mousy impoverished nobleman (Marcello Mastroianni), living on heirlooms in the last unrented rooms of the family palace. He spends most of his time wearily dodging his wife, diligently troweling pomatum on his girlish Sicilian ringlets, meticulously adjusting his hair net, nervously encouraging a limp black mustache that seems to be made of dyed spaghetti. At every opportunity he examines his mirror with watery eyes and murmurs to himself contentedly, "No doubt about it, I am an impressive type...
...Miss Schwarzkopf rendered it, became a drama in miniature. The alternately anguished and tender dialogue of Herr, was traegt der Boden hier, the elaborate pathos of Bedeckt mich mis Bluemen, were projected with mastery; no less remarkable--for Schwarzkopf dearly loves a song in which she can be girlish and winning--was the sly humor of In dem Schatten meiner Locken ("In the shadow of my tresses, my lover fell asleep"), where the phrase "Weck'ich ihn nun auf? Ach nein!" ("Shall I wake him? Ah no"), repeated three times, was first coy, then a bit reproachful, and finally just...
...magic mountain of childhood, down into a world without hockey, a world where she is suddenly evil and cruel as well as good and kind, where a furious mistress throws champagne in her face and a busboy (David Saire) tries to rape her and she herself in a girlish pique betrays the Englishman to the police, and only the next day discovers that she loves him. "I'll never love anyone else!" she sobs as the road seems suddenly to end in the middle of nowhere. But the Englishman smiles gently as he says: "Goodbye. Joss. This summer...
...Venice. Leaning over to give the princess' hairdo a final fluff, he fell into the Grand Canal. But that header was nothing to the splash created by Alexandre of Paris last week when Jackie Kennedy arrived in France. With his careful fingers and soaring imagination, Alexandre transformed the girlish casualness of Jackie's usual hairdo into a piece of elaborate and queenly sculpture...
...Holy Smoke." Born in Wallasey, a grimy industrial city near Liverpool, Arthur Christiansen got to Fleet Street at 20 as London editor of the Liverpool Evening Express, a brash young man whose hair broke over a "rather high brow in embarrassing, almost girlish waves." At 29, he became editor of the Daily Express, second-largest daily in the Western world (after the London Daily Herald). In jig time, Christiansen had the Express in front, although it was later overtaken by the London Daily Mirror. Before a heart attack forced him into retirement, Express circulation doubled...