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...Anderson's former secretary), voted no. Proxmire smiled with surprise, lifted a closed fist in a "go, team" gesture. Anderson, who had voted for the plane before, explained that his mail had run heavily against it this time. Friends suggested that he was influenced by his wife Henrietta, who has become aroused about ecological hazards...
Anyone defining schlemiel and schlimazel should consult a Yiddish lexicon or A New Leaf. Traditionally, a schlemiel is a person who spills the soup; a schlimazel is the one on whom he spills it. In this film the schlemiel is Henrietta (Elaine May). The schlimazel is Henry (Walter Matthau...
Henry shudders, then squares his shoulders and waddles off to the altar-alone but hopeful. On the way he meets Henrietta, spilling tea at a party. As Elaine May plays her, Henrietta is a hilarious anthology of gaffes; when she smiles, lipstick enamels her teeth. When she rises from a table, her lap is upholstered with crumbs. Price tags cling to her new clothes; her fingers dangle from hapless hands, like stockings hung to dry. But she has one profound saving grace: wealth beyond avarice. "Let me take all this away from you," schemes her new suitor, and sweeps...
Parker, who is also curator of an Indian museum on the Reservation and teaches arts and crafts at the Narcotics Addiets Administration, was introduced by Henrietta Blueye...
...necessary, by fainting. It was clearly feminine behavior, and Perrin dares to hint that behind every successful bowdlerizer there is a woman. Perrin's real scoop, however, is the suggestion that the real Bowdler probably was not Thomas at all, nor his wife, but his sister Henrietta Maria, known as Harriet...