Word: schoolgirlisms
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...more women are taking the wedge pledge. Says Jan Richards, a housewife from Beverly Hills: "It's been my salvation. When a woman nears 50, she can't keep the long hair. This way, my hair looks neat, but I don't look like a schoolgirl." Mimi Meltzer, a housewife from Winnetka, Ill., won instant attention-from women and men-with her wedge. "Even the parking lot attendant tested the style after I had it cut," she says. "He asked me to shake my head to see how my hair looked afterwards...
...schoolgirl, Wertmuller already had a wholly individual notion of protest. Refused permission to leave the room because the school superintendent was coming for inspection, little Lina waited for his arrival, stood up and relieved herself by her desk. Later, she and a friend plotted revenge on an unpopular teacher by setting him afire as he drowsed. Despite this, her father wanted Lina to become a lawyer and put up fierce resistance when she expressed wishes to take lessons in acting and directing. She graduated from drama school in Rome in 1951 and found work in all sorts of theatrical pursuits...
...Chief Justice Earl Warren, speaking for a unanimous Supreme Court, found for the plaintiff in the case of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. Brown was Linda, a cheerful, slightly plump, eleven-year-old Kansas schoolgirl who happened to be black. Halfway through his opinion, the Chief Justice asked a long, deceptively innocent question: "Does segregation of children in public schools, solely on the basis of race, even though the physical facilities and other 'tangible' factors may be equal, deprive the children of the mi nority group of equal education opportunities? " His brief answer: "We believe that...
...facts presented as straightforwardly as possible. And who should need garnishings with stories like "The Two Sisters," about a man who finds two women just after the war--one refined, the other like an animal--and lives with them in a polygamous relationship; or "The Witch," about an ugly schoolgirl who wishes for her teacher's wife to die, and then seduces...
...production is aptly named. At 71, the author remains one of the least explicit but most sexually charged of modern writers. In Old Love, an ancient millionaire rediscovers his amatory instincts-only to have his young mistress plunge from a window. In The Witch, an ungainly schoolgirl enchants a repressed intellectual until at last he seizes her, "a witch drenched in blood and semen, a monster that the rising sun transformed into a beauty...