Word: pixyishness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Henry James, an American girl abroad was a dovelike creature, all too easily undone by the serpentine charms of Old World society. Not everybody can accept James's lingering stereotype nowadays. But no one more volubly refutes it than pixyish, thirtyish Elaine Dundy, a Long Islander of a different feather entirely. She fluttered into London via a year in Paris in 1950, soon nested high in the cultural Establishment as the wife of Drama Critic Ken neth Tynan, and has since chronicled the peregrinations of a pair of non-innocents abroad in a pair of small, bright novels...
While her daddy is a summer bachelor next month, 4½-year-old Caroline Kennedy will join the jet set, gosling league, by making her first trip abroad. Accompanied by her mother and a brace of Secret Service agents, the President's pixyish daughter will fly via commercial jetliner to Italy for a two-week vacation with her aunt, Princess Lee Radziwill, in a Neapolitan duke's lofty villa on the cliffs of ancient Ravello...
Died. Joan McCracken, 39, pixyish dancer and actress who rose from the obscurity of the precision-tooled Rockette chorus line to overnight fame by playing the awkward, out-of-step country girl Sylvie, "The Girl Who Falls Down,"' in Broadway's long-running Oklahoma!; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...Rain, a climatological cut-up who releases Mr. Thunder and Mr. Lightning from their padlocked castle. Miss Sunshine's loyal ally is Mr. Rainbow, the official scene painter who slips about, brush in hand, to give beetle, butterfly and snail shell the appropriate hue of the season. The pixyish, Chagall-accented illustrations set the special tone of the book...
Accompanied by bright-eyed Princess Yasmin, 10, her pixyish daughter by the late Aly Khan, Cinemactress Rita Hayworth, 42, sailed from Manhattan for Spain to co-star with Rex Harrison in a film titled The Oldest Confession. On hand to chaperone Rita and Rex, who will be playing a married couple in the "suspense comedy," will be the film's producer, James Hill, who happens to be Rita's fifth and current husband...