Word: schoolgirlisms
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...club and bursting into what Ms. magazine sardonically calls NASA's world of "flaming, phallic rockets." During the next shuttle launch, sitting right there behind the skipper and his copilot, watching those blinking dials and video displays with her eagle eyes, will be Sally Kristen Ride, 32, former schoolgirl tennis star, Ph.D. in physics, cool, witty and attractive, and the possessor of just about as much of the Right Stuff as any man who ever preceded her into space...
...Allah! Ya Allah! [O Lord! O Lord!]" The cries were from a 15-year-old schoolgirl named Amel Sharif, a patient at Amira Alia Hospital in Hebron in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Between her screams, Amel tried to explain what had happened to her four days earlier...
...years ago that Bonjour Tristesse, a short novel by an 18-year-old schoolgirl, Françoise Sagan, sold a record-breaking 1.5 million copies in France. Translations soon topped bestseller lists throughout Europe and in the U.S. A tale of worldly intrigue and adolescent sex, the book caught the public fancy as much for the author's precocious sophistication as for her fine-grained, sensuous prose style. Since then, literary fashions, linguistic games and critical theories have reduced much of French fiction to an esoteric art, impermeable to the intellect, oppressive to the spirit and absolutely...
...affairs for the International editions. Reporter-Researcher Naushad Mehta, who worked with Palmer on recent stories about Swiss banks, the Turkish economy and aid to Third World countries, knows the troubles of struggling economies firsthand. When the Indian rupee was devalued by 36.5% in 1966, Mehta, then a Bombay schoolgirl, saw the value of her pocket money dwindle abruptly. "It was," she recalls vividly, "quite a shock. The kind of thing you remember...
...conducts the music he plays on his hifi. Sometimes he visits his mistress in Salamanca, more frequently he calls on his only friend, a priest, to chide him with anticlerical chat. He has become less worldly than the good father, and easy prey for Goyita, a 13-year-old schoolgirl (Ana Torrent of Cria), an instinctive siren who senses in him, despite their differences in age and sex, a kindred eccentricity of spirit. He is a very clean old man (especially as portrayed by the innocent-eyed Hector Alterio), and it is she who lures him on into an affair...