Word: girlishness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...another into a brawl that fills the square. Soon the entire cast is introduced: Romeo, handsome and brawny; Friend Mercutio, here a playboy with wonderfully impudent toes; Tybalt, an arrogant, bloodthirsty Capulet; the stony senior Capulets and Montagues; and, last and best, Ulanova's Juliet, not quite girlish and a bit plumper about the waist than the American fashion in dancers...
When Juliet is on camera, the ballet goes lyrical, and there is no need for the narrator. By the swiftness of her flashing toes, as she and Romeo first face each other, she establishes a mood of girlish ecstasy; by the neat way she lifts one calf across the other while Romeo holds her aloft, she expresses womanly satisfaction in her conquest; at the marriage, the very line of her pouter-pigeon torso, stretching straight back to her pointed toes as she is held up, delivers an emotional wallop. But the high point of Ballerina Ulanova's performance...
...award called a "Bosco" was given to June Allyson, "who, with eternally girlish homeiness, an aura of fresh-baked, deep-dish apple pie like Mother used to make, and an endless supply of tears, bravely but vainly attempts to resist the onslaught of the advancing years...
...Duty." As the pressures bore in upon her last week, Margaret kept her own counsel and performed with cool dignity the duties of her rank. But her face told a story of strain, suspense and indecision. Crowds of photographers, dogging her steps, glimpsed sometimes a young face, suffused with girlish happiness, sometimes a woman's face taut with worry. For nine out of ten successive days, the Princess managed to spend some well-chaperoned hours with Peter Townsend, usually at small, informal parties in the homes of friends. One such evening spun out until...
...situation, Rattigan might as well be hunting uranium with an ear trumpet. Moreover, in The Deep Blue Sea, the leading lady does little to help. The part is scored, though crudely, for the full cello notes of womanly anguish; Vivien plays it in the thin pizzicato of girlish petulance...