Word: schoolgirlisms
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...Harvard linksters rode out the storm here on Friday, teeing up in pelting rain and 40-ish temperatures on a course whose fairways seemed to flap in the wind, like ribbons in a schoolgirl's hair...
When the film begins, it is 1962 and Pauline (Valerie Mairesse) is a slightly overweight, optimistic 17 year old who wears traditional schoolgirl clothes, carries a bookbag, and lets her bright red ponytail bounce from side to side as she sings in the school choir. Her friend Suzanne (Therese Liotard) is thin, withdrawn, feels like she's 100, and is really only 22. She and her photographer boyfriend have two children and no money, and are expecting an abortion...
...home. She exchanges tearful goodbyes with Pauline and heads off for her parents' farm in the country. Ten years later, while protesting at an abortion rally, the two finally meet again. Both have obviously settled into hip, young womanhood. Pomme has traded in both her old name and her schoolgirl charms for embroidered clothes, an Iranian boyfriend, and a guitar: she sings songs about round and flat tummies. Suzanne wears a softly tailored suit and a "hey, I'm together now" smile. A hug, kiss and a "gee, you look great" later the two part again, this time promising...
...January; it ordered a second printing and is selling that out as well. The sales have been particularly impressive considering the formidable cost of the books ($25 for a boxed set of paperbacks), their daunting length (4,624 pages), and their lack of anything that would make a Victorian schoolgirl blush...
Greis had acquired quite a load of silverware since she took up the game six years ago. She was the Massachusetts Girls' Champion in 1975 and finished as runner-up in the state Schoolgirl Championship three times...