Word: lumped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that the princess has a weak memory: even an IBM super multiprocessor system would be hard put to keep track of the surgical, spiritual, chemical and cosmetic chicanery credited with transforming her from what she calls "a lump" of a young girl into the "internationally renowned beauty" of today. Her nose has been bobbed, her eyelids lifted, her breasts treated with cell implants. Hypnosis, silicone injections, and mysterious processes she calls "diacutaneous fibrolysis" and "aromatotherapy"-all have somehow been fitted into a schedule already jampacked with appointments for facials and pedicures, yoga lessons and gym classes. In The Beautiful People...
...about even if Segal didn't: a shrewd remake of a Claudette Colbert-Bette Davis tear-jerker, a wet and sloppy romantic interlude which ends in no good for one more tough American broad. Although the death watch exploits Ryan O'Neal as the rebellious scion with a lump in his throat, the real focus of this 1940 star-posturing is Ali McGraw. (Had she worn the midi, it would have been a little too ludicrous...
...clips his words and stands as if he had swallowed a swagger stick. Glamour is provided by Mademoiselle Garonce, a Viennese-educated vision in chiffon with a husky voice that sounds as if it might burst into flame at any moment. The fifth member of the troupe is Elsie Lump (pronounced Loomp), a grumpy ex-London music-hall harpy with sullen manners, a cockney accent and hair the color of smoked salmon...
...most of their fans, the Standwells are far more real than the cardboard actors of Broadway. Mail comes addressed to the puppets: mash notes to Mademoiselle, formal thank-yous to Isabelle, extravagant fan letters to Elsie. Bette Davis used to telephone the theater regularly for reservations, asking for "Miss Lump, please...
...CHUBBY little girl in blue stretch-pants and a sweatshirt walked up and said, by way of introduction, "Hi, do you like to shoot guns? I do. I have my own 22 and my father makes bullets." She held up a lump of metal hanging from a thin chain around her neck. "He made this necklace. It's a bullet...