Word: schoolgirlisms
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...right, so it isn't exactly Hamlet. But did Hamlet have such cool character names? And did Hamlet have a hilarious subplot featuring a repressed Catholic schoolgirl named Sheila Stound (Richard Claflin, the president of the Theatricals) and a nagging nun named Sister Maticdestruction (Adam Geyer) who likes to hit things with her Bible? Things like slot machines...
...even get married in most states). I want to enjoy the freedom to walk down the street holding hands with my girlfriend. I am not a "deviate" or a "pervert"; I want to be treated with respect and understanding of my difference, not as some schoolgirl who needs Peninsula's help to understand my moral failings...
They're beautiful, that's obvious. But they have something else: presence, or maybe allure, fascination or magic. Whatever it is, it hits the instant one sees Naomi Campbell in a yellow totem gown, a Nefertiti of the '90s. Or Linda Evangelista looking like a Scottish schoolgirl on the cover of Vogue. Or Christy Turlington gazing serenely from an ad for Calvin Klein's Eternity perfume. Naomi. Linda. Christy. They're everywhere. Vogue, Elle, feature pages, ad pages, gossip pages. Selling couture and catalogs, soap and sportswear. And during the fall fashion shows these three have sashayed their impossibly sleek...
Close up, offscreen, Depardieu gives you the charm and the power. The man can swagger sitting down. His lank hair, which looks as if he swiped it from a schoolgirl who has played hooky all year long, frames a huge face -- bulbous nose and ship-prow chin dominating the small, lively eyes. Devouring a steak over lunch at the swank George V hotel in Paris, he cascades opinions on any subject, from Dostoyevsky to David Letterman, punctuating his effusions with grand, intense gestures. When a waitress arrives to pour the St. Pourcain, Depardieu proffers the larger of his two stem...
...mixed-up life he led and the daughter he never gave a damn for, and damn Uncle Lionel for treating me like the boarding-school bitch I am, and ( damn Aunt Ethel who doesn't even know I'm alive, and damn me for being a silly, arrogant, affected schoolgirl! God damn us all! We deserve everything we get!" More recently, Diana's niece Drew Barrymore, star of E.T., went into therapy after admitting that she had used marijuana from the age of 10 and cocaine two years later...