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...soap must stress cleansing power rather than fluffy wash or handy container. The Spanish have a confident serenity, and ads that suggest snob appeal fall flat. Italians, though they bred Gina and Sophia, are prudish about sex and seminudity. "We can't present a woman as a sex kitten," moans an adman in Italy, where the Maidenform girl is photographed modestly at home and forgoes Freudian dreams...
Always an Outcast. When Mahlke is 14 and dozing beside an athletic field, a classmate thrusts a playful kitten on his "mouse"-the word he uses throughout the book to describe his swollen Adam's apple. Mahlke becomes savagely self-conscious about the mouse. In winter, he fixes his scarf high over it with a safety pin and constantly reaches up with his hand to be sure the scarf is in place. In summer, he spends as much time as possible in swimming so the mouse will be invisible under water. Struggling in other ways against the teasing derision...
Shaw's Cleopatra has feline forebears. During her sixteenth year, Caesar does not, as so many critics have maintained, turn a cat into a queen (Shakespeare shows us the Queen Cleopatra); he turns an untrained kitten into a full-grown cat. Miss Nye is careful always to preserve her felinity -- through the way she lounges on the right paw of the Sphinx, indulges in catty grimaces, voices her petulant "But me! me!! me!!! what is to become of me?," plans Ftatateeta's murder with paw-like hands, and poses with crossed arms at the final fade-out. An occasional huskiness...
Died. Walter Louis Hakanson, 64, Denver Y.M.C.A. executive, who in 1932 coined the name "softball" and wrote the first national rules for a game that was invented in 1895 by a Minneapolis fireman (he called it "kitten-ball"), but which never caught on until the Depression, when millions of unemployed found it a way to pass their time; after a long illness; in Denver...
...Kitten & Linguist. But Hollywood could never make her into one of its once numerous mannikins, because she has too much of a head start. She is a bright, fast-moving girl with a mind of her own. Being a star does not impress her. "I want to be a good actress," she says. "The word star is flexible." Beyond German, she speaks Spanish, Italian, French and English, and is an established star in the French, German and Italian cinema. In the parts that have built her fame, she has almost invariably been a sex kitten ever ready to sleep with...