Word: neutered
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...study rather than plot to get her through those seven years, and the movie has followed her example. Dottie (Joan Hackett) of Chapter 2 fame, is from Boston and decides to lose her virginity with a Greenwich Village artist. Helena (Kathleen Widdoes) is the daughter of an industrialist, sexually "neuter" and Valedictorian. Libby (Jessica Walter) is a bitch who becomes a career woman in the publishing world. Polly (Shirly Knight) runs metabolism tests because the money ran out for her doctor's education, and keeps a delightfully insane father. Priss (Elizabeth Hartman) worked for NRA, then married and went through...
...freak? Not at all, just a voice so seldom heard today as to sound strangely neuter at first hearing. But once the ear adapts to Deller's pure, vibratoless voice spiraling effortlessly up through the range of the female alto, the effect is entrancing. In two Handel arias, it floated lightly and lonely as a lark above the bustle of the orchestra. The performance had all the fresh appeal of a lost art rediscovered, which, in fact, it is. Deller is now 53, but when he first achieved recognition, he was the first virtuoso countertenor in 120 years. Almost...
...also different from Tamil in its syntax. The start of St. Luke's parable of the prodigal son ("A certain man had two sons") becomes in Hindi "One man did two sons have," and in Tamil "For one man two sons were." South Indian languages have a neuter gender as well as masculine and feminine; in the north, there are only masculine and feminine. "Water," for example, is neuter in Tamil, feminine in Hindi...
...Newsweek's new proprietor, Graham plans to divide his time more or less equally between Washington and New York. Newsweek's neuter approach to the news is bound to yield to Phil Graham's outspoken Democratic liberalism. And Phil Graham himself seemed like a kid with a new toy. "It may be fun and it may be agony," said he of his new venture. "But I'm glad...
...somebody else-who have known and mildly disliked each other for years. Then, accidentally, they find themselves in Acapulco for a two-week vacation, alone together and falling in love. They fight it off, swim it off, laugh it off, in the end settle for a nice, safe, neuter idyl that is both hilarious and painful to watch...