Word: mannishly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...artists came and went, but the two women remained inseparable. Let Miss Stein's mannish and serene face appear at a café, and there beside her was sure to be found the birdlike Miss Toklas, with her large, darting eyes and determined mouth. The relationship between the two women lasted for more than 39 years, until Miss Stein succumbed to cancer in 1946. Last week, 20 years after the loss of her devoted friend, death came in Paris to Alice Boyd Toklas...
What makes her success even more remarkable is that Margaret Sanger was no tough-talking, mannish feminist. Even when she wore severely tailored suits to appear more formidable, she could not conceal her obvious femininity. She was a radiant, vivacious redhead, scarcely 5 ft. tall, who left scores of suitors in her wake...
...kids are about as relaxed as any normal, healthy, sibling-rivalry-riven American youngsters. "It's a good thing I came first, or I never would have got any attention," complains Nancy, a freckle-faced introvert who hides her dark hair under sun visors and prefers to wear mannish flannel shorts instead of frilly tennis skirts...
...lovely when Greta Garbo resurrected her onscreen, prowling around in trousers with John Gilbert in 1933's Queen Christina. Still, the myth persisted that besides being wanton and mannish, Sweden's baroque queen was plain ugly. A catty tale. Archaeologists opened the marble tomb in the Vatican grotto where she was buried in 1689, discovered the silver death mask of a handsome woman who might have played the Garbo part herself...
...Paul Newman gamely plays an oversexed newspaperman exiled to the Champs Elysées after meeting too many deadlines with his boss's wife. Joanne Woodward is a department store buyer who treks abroad to pinch designs from Dior, Lanvin-Castillo and Pierre Cardin. Naturellement, she herself wears mannish styles and spectacles-she's a sort of hemidemisemivirgin, "a girl who tried love once but didn't like...