Word: longing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Horseback & Hospital. When a star combines high sex appeal with low resistance to the demands of press-agents, she works all the harder. For The Girl from Jones Beach, Virginia Mayo put in appearances at ten towns on Long Island's south shore, with receptions by civic dignitaries at every stop. For the opening of Colorado Territory in Denver, she had to ride horseback to the theater through a heavy downpour. ("How," pleaded Virginia, "do you put the top up on a horse?") On the way to Denver, press-agents stopped her train so that she could leave...
Eleanor herself soon became chief executive in family matters. Her biggest problem, as she tells it, was her mother-in-law, Sara Delano Roosevelt. She snaps with wifely irritation: "I doubt if as long as she lived she ever let [Franklin] leave the house without inquiring whether he was dressed warmly enough . . . She never accepted the fact of his independence and continued to the last to try to guide his life...
...admission, Adriana was "a real beauty" with "firm straight legs, curving hips, a long back, narrow waist and broad shoulders. Mother said . . . there was not a figure like mine in all Rome." Adriana liked men, all kinds and any age, with an earthy nymphomania that inevitably took her into prostitution...
Adriana is the ripe, first-person singular heroine of The Woman of Rome, a long, languorous novel by Italy's most trumpeted living writer, Alberto Moravia. U.S. readers may well ask what all the critical tizzy is about. In The Woman of Rome, Moravia has blended poverty and lust with considerable technical skill, but, given Adriana's temperament, his bid for deeper meanings, e.g., human helplessness caught in life's iron grip, was doomed from the start...
...widowed, seamstress mother. Mama had no intention of letting her daughter get tied up with hard work or tied down to marriage with a man of her class. She got her a job as a model, made it clear that she didn't mind Adriana sleeping out "as long as they paid her." After a couple of non-professional affairs, streetwalking followed fast...