Word: milkmaid
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...minute, not exactly kicking and screaming, the lieutenant is hauled off to the hay by a muscular milkmaid (Didi Perego); the next he is watching a German tommy gun chop down a refugee...
...subjects of common knowledge: a study of Russia could, after all, hardly be complete without its survey on the subject of surpassing American milk and butter production. Yet since agriculture is Mr. Hindus' forte, his remarks on farming often prove quite interesting. He notes, for example, that the Soviet milkmaid has "by the grace of Khrushchev, ...been lifted to the status of a new heroine on Soviet farms." For spending her entire day at pitching hay to at most twenty-five cows, milking them, and cleaning their stalls-what to an American farmer are mere morning and evening chores...
...Spencer, 68, British artist who transformed the simple sights of his home town of Cookham into the great events of the Bible in paintings of flat, muted colors ("I saw many burning bushes in Cookham"), borrowed the faces of his neighbors for Biblical characters, and of his cousin, a milkmaid, for the Virgin Mary; in Taplow, England...
...someone else doing an act and says "Watch him"-the sort of trick that "you could teach a dog to do by smearing meat on the actors." But when Patti lent her big, plain voice to the color-drenched proceedings, she was as pretty and wholesome as a milkmaid. The new George Gobel-Eddie Fisher songfest was not exactly the "wonderful show" Eddie called it, but shy, impish Lonesome George again proved himself the master of the minor key-even when delivering a monologue plugging NBC color. Of all the new musicals, the best was the simplest: The Lux Show...
...aging, but still amorous devotee of the pseudo-poet. She has a real talent for comic gesture and routine with just the proper bit of stylization, and wondrous to say, she has a very fine voice. Elizabeth MacNeil, play the title role of Patience, a much-sought-after milkmaid, sings well and liltingly, but her acting seems the weakest among the principals. Perhaps this is just a touch of opening-night fever. Also, she could have been more attractively costumed. Merle Moses, Carol White and Nancy Ryan, among the "lovesick maidens," sing charmingly, dance when required, and smile...