Word: pregnantly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Grace all buy clothes from Dior, though Grace also fancies Balenciaga (who designed Belgian Queen Fabiola's mink-trimmed bridal gown), and in her Hollywood days was dressed by Oleg Cassini (now Jackie's couturier). Save for Fabiola, who had a miscarriage last summer but is reported pregnant again, all the reigning beauties are devoted mothers whose main occupational complaint is that their children have to spend too much time in the hands of nannies...
Rita Tushingham says funny things as afterthoughts. "I always seem to be pregnant," she comments, reviewing her tiny list of acting credits. "If I ever have children, they'll probably be padded ones...
...looks of a spirited waif. She plays one in Honey-a little urchin abandoned by her mother and by a Negro sailor who has left her pregnant, later befriended by a pale, homosexual boy who prepares her for motherhood. She is freckled and mousy, with wide-spreading lips and eyes the size of deep-summer plums. But she is an actress, not a slum kitten picked up for verisimilitude...
...learned quickly from Director Richardson. "He helped me over the hard bits," she says. "One of the hardest was learning to have the baby kick me. That's pretty hard to do if you've never had a baby. Learning to walk like a pregnant woman was not easy either. I didn't exactly go around staring at them, but whenever I saw one I'd try to notice how they walk with that big lump sticking out in front of them...
...author is so ruthlessly imaginative that she does not need pity; she knows, for instance, that the old men in the bars keep themselves happy betting on the number of pregnant women who pass by, or clocking the trips a college girl on a date will take to the ladies' room. The old ladies are all charmingly indomitable; they perk up their spirits by writing letters to Adlai Stevenson, or by shocking the sensibilities of stuffy sons who want them to come and live in Darien. Novelist Stone believes firmly in the outlandishness of the usual. An eagle grounds...