Word: mannishness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...