Word: pixyishness
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...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...
...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...