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Baby Doll. Films like How to Marry a Millionaire, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and The Seven Year Itch made her vague but sparkling smile and her shrill, excited voice the universal definition of Baby Doll. And she learned to speak in the voice of the girl she was supposed to be with memorable success...
...days of the middle 19th century, when there were no wars and the most burning issues were the price of corn and the rise of trade unions, Melbourne was able to make a career of wit and irony. He shocked his fellow politicians by his love of paradox, his itch to ridicule everything, including himself. "The stomach is the seat of health, strength, thought and life," he said, alluding to his fondness for food and drink. "If you have a bad habit, the best way to get out of it is to take your fill...
Charlotte has a seven-year widow's itch for a mate. Humbert obliges, but only because he has a very special itch for her gum-chewing, Coke-swigging daughter Lolita (Sue Lyon). The shock effect of this is dimmed, since the film ducks the duty of specifying Lolita's age and gives the part to a girl of 14 who looks a round 17. Making her movie debut, Teen-Ager Lyon is simply overmatched by the demands of her part. She acts knowing rather than sexy, and she lacks what Nabokov himself has defined as the "demoniac" essence...
...collar, a spade-tailed coat, and nose glasses leashed with yards of black, fluttering ribbon. He rolled out his words with infinite relish. "My faults," he cried, "are obvious. There can be no doubt I have my full share. I suffer from cacoëthes loquendi, a mania or itch for talking, from vanity and morbidity, and, as is obvious to everyone who knows me, an inborn, an inveterate flair for histrionics." Democrat Henry Fountain Ashurst was off on one of the orations that were the delight of the Senate from...
...Flirtation. Ivory Coast's leader got his start as a country doctor in the backwoods. His contact with village chiefs and the unhappy masses gave Houphouet (he later added Boigny, which means "battering ram" in his native Baoule tongue) an itch for politics; in the 19405 he formed Ivory Coast's first political party, later organized nationalist politicians in all French West Africa territories into one large political group, the Rassemblement Democratique Africain. For a time. Houphouet-Boigny's RDA was allied with the French Communists, but eventually he dropped his Red friends; bv then...