Word: pixyishness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fact, so many people remember Michael J. Pollard's wild hair and potato face in Bonnie and Clyde that the 28-year-old actor has become the center of a pop cult. One bunch is running him for President, and a clothing manufacturer wants to put his pixyish grimace on dresses. "Can you imagine wearing my face out in public?" giggles Pollard. "Making money off my face?" He's already swamped with new scripts, has signed on for another movie, and this week opens on Broadway in Leda Had a Little Swan. In a dou ble role...
Died. Sean O'Kelly, 84, President of the Republic of Ireland from 1945 to 1959, whose pixyish personality and dandy dress suited him well for his ceremonial office, particularly on a two-week visit to the U.S. in 1959, when he blarneyed all the boyos and bussed all the colleens, saying to his wife "Look at this one, dear, isn't she grand?"; after a long illness; in Dublin...
...plaintive ballads that made "the Sparrow of the Streets" a national idol until her death in 1963. Soon Mireille's recordings were topping the bestseller lists; this summer she sang 64 consecutive sellout concerts in the provinces, outdrawing all other French and foreign singers. Last month her pixyish face, framed in a heart-shaped helmet of chestnut hair, appeared on the covers of France's three leading women's magazines, refueling the Piaf mystique...
...easy to know that white marlin, those denizens of the deep, don't eat rabbits. But do the marlin know it? Hosting, the Second Annual Governors Invitational Marlin Tournament at Ocean City, Maryland's pixyish Governor J. Millard Tawes, 72, arrived with a "secret weapon"-a lure made from a rabbit's foot with a hook in it. Presto! Barely five minutes after Tawes got out to the fishing grounds, a 7-ft. 4-in. marlin hurled itself at his line. "My goodness!" exclaimed Tawes, and pumped in the prize. No one else got even a sniff...
...Zulu and the Zayda. Zayda means grandfather in Yiddish, and a pixyish, diminutive grandpa (Menasha Skulnik) is the hero of this "play with music" set in Johannesburg. This Zayda speaks three languages-Zulu Yiddish, English Yiddish, and Yiddish Yiddish. He has a black African friend and com panion, a tall, open-faced child of good nature (Louis Gossett), who strangely enough also speaks Yiddish a good deal of the time. Playgoers who know only English may feel a sneaking desire to hear their mother tongue, but that would be a questionable mercy when the dialogue runs to such dire profundities...