Word: girlishness
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...fans awaiting the premiere of the new year's big movie. Bollywood princess Aishwarya Rai was greeted with a bouquet of roses from a city official and audience cries of "We love you, Ash!" Abhishek Bachchan, a rising actor and son of Indian film legend Amitabh Bachchan, enters to girlish squeals not heard since Hrithik Roshan last went topless in public. Mani Ratnam, who is internationally the most revered writer-director of Indian films, said a few words. Composer A R Rahman, whose hundred or so film scores have made him arguably the world's all-time top-selling recording...
...Amidst the highly contrasted trends on runways-from girlish mod mini-dresses to sexy '80s-style corsets-two things are certain: the dress is the most important item of the season and tailoring is not in fashion. "I don't know why, but it is not about tailoring," said Miuccia Prada, sitting in her spare office on the Via Bergamo. "Perhaps it's because young people are just not into that...
...woman of power. She's proof that you don't have to abandon your femininity to make it." No kidding. At a meeting in Paris earlier this year, a man told Royal she looked good. "You're not too bad yourself," she retorted. Her arsenal includes the occasional girlish giggle, a disarming smile and a sartorial penchant for pure white. To her opponents in the party, those are unfair tactics, ones that mask an ideological emptiness that will show up sooner or later. "Technique doesn't replace politics; there have to be ideas, convictions, a discussion of the stakes," said...
Just don't let the girlish innocence mislead you. Meissner, the youngest of four children, is a competitor. After she missed a jump combination in her short program at nationals last month, she vowed to complete it two days later in the free program. And she did, flawlessly. "Once she sets a goal for herself, she's determined to reach it," says her mother Judy. This season that goal was making the Olympic team. "She is a great competitor. She's mentally tough," says her coach of nine years, Pam Gregory. "She stays in the moment and is able...
...hate Brenda Walsh, or more particularly the actress who plays her on TV's Beverly Hills 90210. That was easy. Old boyfriends called her rage prone, co-workers called her snotty, landlords called her a deadbeat. Unfortunately, marrying ; the 19-year-old son of George Hamilton -- on a girlish whim -- did nothing to help Shannen appear mature. Said to be generally just too much of a pain, she reportedly won't be asked back...