Word: girlishness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even when the pace slows, Jenny Gibbs does a graceful job of playing Alice; her performance is full of energy and her girlish gestures are appropriate. If her accent is uneven, it is only out of consistency with the work--Alice admits in the first act that she is a native of both Oxford and Hackensack, which cannot help but to confuse Gibbs' speech pattern...
...removed." The result is that outsiders can misinterpret her manner and mistakenly belittle her talent. Playwright Terrence McNally complains that "what people often miss about Wendy is the thoughtful, passionate, mature womanly side of her. She is far more interesting as a mature artist than as this giggling, girlish, daughter-person that people want to take care...
...index of the athletic pharmacopoeia is long and gets longer. Rare and expensive human-growth hormone can, some say, turn children into massive competitive machines and aid muscle growth in adults. Stories circulate about puberty suppressants that allow gymnasts to keep their finely balanced girlish bodies. But no drugs pose as much of a threat to the fairness and legitimacy of athletic competition as anabolic steroids do. And as the Johnson scandal shows, nothing has so obscured the efforts of honest athletes or has contributed as much shame to the Games...
...freckles are utterly disarming. She enhances their effect by wearing her hair in a girlish bob. Her round brown eyes seem to be perpetually widened in astonishment at the inventiveness that people lavish on wicked enterprises. In short, Ryoko Itakura (Nobuko Miyamoto) does not fit anyone's image of a tax collector. But in her case, appearances are usefully deceptive. They camouflage a spirit demonically dedicated to exposing the cheating heart of the all-too-typical taxpayer...
...Trenary offered an elegant performance that placed her fourth. (Caryn Kadavy, the most expressive of the U.S. skaters, was forced to withdraw from the competition with a 103 degrees fever.) The charmer was petite Midori Ito of Japan, only 18, who entranced the audience with her powerhouse jumps and girlish enthusiasm. As she concluded her routine with a gravity-defying triple Lutz, Ito shook her fists triumphantly above her head and burst into unabashed tears of delight. Though she finished fifth, Ito received a standing ovation -- something Witt did not earn...