Word: pert
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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SEEKING DIVORCE. Doris Day, 56, pert, wholesome movie actress (Pillow Talk, Midnight Lace) and singer; and Barry Comden, 45, restaurateur; after five years of marriage, her fourth, his second; in Los Angeles...
Erhart has a more intoxicating idea, like eloping with a pert divorcee (Patricia Cray Lloyd). The desolate John Gabriel wanders out into the snow to die, and the sisters clasp hands of reconciliation over his body. Marshall, Murphy and Worth do the best that able professionals can with their roles but this production rarely gives them much scope...
Joni (pronounced Johnny) Eareckson doesn't surfer the kind of deformity that causes people to point or stare. With her pretty girl-next-door looks, radiant smile, and pert, no-nonsense personality, she is a popular speaker on the Evangelical Protestant celebrity circuit and to nonreligious groups. As she readily admits, she is treated better than most of her fellow disabled Americans. But Joni Eareckson, 31, is totally paralyzed from the neck down...
...light. 7:55. A city full of female legs: walking, running, bicycling, escalatoring. Hands hail a cab, finger a watch, exchange coins for coffee. The coffee spills on her new pumps. 8:50. Speed-read the morning paper, run for the elevator, just miss it. One pert, frazzled woman checks a scrawled address, enters the anonymous skyscraper, ascends to her new job. The elevator doors open, then begin to close. She realizes that this is her floor and dashes through the doors...
Nabokov's faith in the transforming magic of an artist's style leads him to overrate the beautifully written blarney of Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. By the same token, he somewhat underrates Jane Austen, who, despite her "pert, precise and polished" prose, is so deeply rooted in the quotidian that he misses her enchantment. Yet he celebrates his own aesthetic, the "capacity to wonder at trifles," with an ardor that is irresistible. "These asides of the spirit, these footnotes in the volume of life are the highest forms of consciousness," he maintains...