Word: kittenishly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...meaning. Moderately contemptuous of the law, the author is also, unfortunately, only moderately knowledgeable about it. She has obviously relied on the expertise of her lawyer husband, but she seems only to have asked him specific questions. There is no deep exploration of the law's underlying rationale. Kittenish phrases crop up-"for some unfathomable reason known only to lawyers and judges"-which would be acceptable enough if the fathoms of the law were not clearly the business of a book about a trial and the functioning, or malfunctioning, of the legal system...
...Kittenish Ball. As the prizewinners indicate, interaction must both precede and succeed innovation. Each work unites art and technology so successfully that it responds to a human touch or noise almost as though it were alive. Visitors at the Modern could plug themselves -by stethoscope-into Jean Dupuy's Poe-like Heart Beats Dust. The stethoscope is wired to a sensitive diaphragm inside a clear plastic case, and every time the viewer's heart thumps, a tiny telltale mushroom cloud of ruby-red dust boils up under a spooky cone of light. Robin Parkinson's sonically activated...
...premise that a Hollywood producer would set up an afternoon rendezvous with a suburban ma tron he once dated-17 years before-in order to kill an hour in bed. There is more lacquer than lecher in Scott's peacock-of-the-walk performance, but Stapleton is properly kittenish as she downs vodka stingers until she can only feel the bites on her neck...
...bottle. Canadian Club's new approach indicates that women can share both the adventure and the whisky. The most recent Seagram gin ad shows a married couple holding martinis and bragging about "our secret" for making them well. Distillers try to keep the women wifely instead of sex-kittenish. "The girl," says Seagram Distillers Co. President Bernard Tabbat, "has to be a nice girl." Adds National Distillers Vice President-General Manager Raymond Herrmann: "We don't shock with low-cut gowns, but we don't use nuns either." In rather startling exception to this cautious approach, Cluny...
Married. Edie Adams, 35, kittenish nightclub comedienne and cinemactress, widow of the late cigar-chomping Ernie Kovacs; and Marty Mills, 37, Manhattan music publisher; she for the second time; in Beverly Hills, Calif...