Word: mannishly
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...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...
...tricked him into coming to visit his father; she can no longer bear for Vallone to touch her. She watches as Perkins' affection for his father grows, shutting her out of their lives. Lurking always in the background is the sinister figure of her maid, a mannish mystic possessing an unnatural affection for her mistress. The maid warns Mercouri: "Put that boy out of your heart or everything will fall...
Matronly and shrill, Aggie seems an anomaly in the Herald-Examiner's mannish, prankish city room. But in her 36 years as a journalist (30 on the Herald-Examiner, 15 as its city editor), Aggie has kept such a muscular grip on the news of L.A.'s seamy side that no one thinks of the greying grandmother as an interloper in a man's world. Years away from her reputation as the town's best crime reporter, she still keeps up a running dialogue with the underworld that helps her paper to impressive scoops...