Word: kittenishness
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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...
Within hours after her death, Marilyn Monroe faced her Last Judgment at the hands of TIME magazine. In quick, merciless thrusts your writer depicted early guilt, perverted dreams, and a "kittenish romance." It advanced a "death long in coming," "self-doubt," and just plain "body...
...married Joe DiMaggio in 1954−their courtship had been beautifully photographed. And few were surprised when they were divorced nine months later. It was only when she married Playwright Arthur Miller that her fans began to wonder: who is this queen of sex? Through Miller, she conducted a kittenish romance with the intelligentsia and for a while, everything she said sounded as if she were talking about Zen Buddhism. But when her marriage ended last year, she found herself able to give her religious views as "Jewish agnostic" and revert to the charms of innocence: "I never quite understood...
Arnold Baker, a 75-year-old former engineer on the Maine Central Railroad, watched the square dancing at the Senior Citizens' Center (this produces several heart attacks a year) and winked at some of the women who were acting kittenish. "You can have a lot of fun in this town if you don't just sit down and die," he said. "You got to keep on the move. I play cards a lot, take a girl out to dinner now and then...
...questioning the depth of this message, critics?notably Alfred Kazin, who apologizes solemnly for having to say it?have suggested that the Glass children are too cute and too possessed by self-love. The charge is unjust. They are too clearly shadowed by death, even in their woolliest, most kittenish moments, to be cute, and they are too seriously worried about the very danger of self-love to be true egotists...