Word: misses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...worst hangovers") and always looking for that one lay which will bring her fortune and fame. Sally is a desperate character whose high spirits are the only assurance she has that she can keep from being a loser. Given half a chance, I suspect that Miss Minnelli might have had the range for such a part--but that half a chance isn't given her. Instead she is forced into another replay of the kooky Pookie Adams she played in The Sterile Cuckoo--a spirited, imaginative unhappy little girl who's never recovered from the debilitating effects of an unloving...
...very sad. One suspects that the chief reason Miss Minnelli is asked, and consents, to play her role is that she lacks conventional beauty. On screen, she is continually apologizing for her appearance, asking "Doesn't my body drive you wild?" in self-deprecating good spirits, and mugging incessantly as if she thinks she is any the more attractive in a state of perpetual motion. Miss Minnelli is simply another victim of a double standard that remains anachronistically true of today's movies: while actors who aren't conventionally handsome--Alan Arkin. Dustin Hoffman. Eliot Gould--are permitted to admit...
...next year for sure, and she'll probably miss my grandmother more than my grandmother will miss...
...board wanted to put his away. In addition to his graduate work, Collins continued in the fight for social justice. At the time of his induction proceedings he was a staff member of SCEF, helping to form a black-white alliance of workers in the Masonite Corporation in Laurel, Miss. According to Braden, Collins's work paid off last fall in the successful woodcutters strike. Braden claims. "The black white unity of the recent strike was, in a large part, due to the work of Walter Collins...
Some men might be inclined to belittle these achievements on the grounds that Billie Jean might have trouble taking a set from any one of the world's top 100 male players, and that Robyn may never be another Willie Shoemaker. But those arguments really miss the point: Mrs. King and Miss Smith are, simply and sufficiently, two exceptional athletes who have managed to advance further in their chosen sports than any women before them...