Word: prim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...again and again, the child escapes and is captured. Again and again, Annie meets the near-demented girl on her own level, exchanging wild slaps and pokes. Still Helen breaks away, feinting her tormentor out of position, crawling under the table, perching on her chair with a kind of prim furor, and refusing to eat. With only the exhausted movement of hip or hand, Annie expresses the depths of her combined determination and despair. She is reduced to a disheveled wreck, chest heaving, shoulders slumped, slovenly hair sloping across her face...
...kind of loving criticism," he says. The criticisms are sometimes wrapped in flattery, as when he paints a gauzy profile of the Duchess of Windsor without those wrinkles that are the map of earned character. But Truman Capote he sees devastatingly as a lounging, feline figure, with a prim mouth and enormous cold spectacles. Elsa Maxwell becomes, in a spectacularly strong and concise portrait, a court dwarf out of Velasquez. Says Bouché: "A court jester, but also a desperately serious woman who considers herself a serious critic of society...
Pimps & Panders. In 1934 Eugene Messina, describing himself as a merchant, traveled to London to investigate conditions. On the surface, Britain appeared sternly moralistic, with puritanical drinking laws and a prim observance of the Sabbath. But it was also full of men devoted to pleasure and prepared to pay. The Messinas decided that what London vice needed was organization, and they set out to provide it. To his delight, Eugene Messina discovered that it cost no more in legal fines to obstruct a London street with a tart than with...
...Secretary, has left behind his old left-wing Bevanite crowd. As Bevan sat with face flaming, hands clenched, Macmillan pressed home the final scathing remark: "I feel sorry for him as he gropes about, abandoned by his old friends and colleagues-a shorn Samson surrounded by a bevy of prim and aging Delilahs." Labor's censure motion was defeated by a surprisingly large 70-vote margin...
Police Guard. Prim, convent-bred Michiko Shoda had no part in any such shenanigans. But, just as in the eyes of many Japanese women she is the most successful symbol of their emancipation, so has she to some extent become a symbol of the hated modern world to Japanese traditionalists-mostly men over 30. Some of the kazoku (noble) families make no secret of their chagrin that their own blue-blooded daughters were passed over as a bride for the crown prince. A court lady angrily describes Michiko Shoda as "that little upstart." Recently, as a guest at an exclusive...