Word: schoolgirlisms
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...County black registrants outnumbered whites 2 to 1. Thomas Gilmore stepped forward again to run for sheriff against Big Bill Lee, the man who once whipped him in a lawyer's office across from the courthouse for demanding the arrest of a deputy who had struck a black schoolgirl. This time, Gilmore...
...American has endured death row longer (13 years, 7 months) than Edgar Smith-and few inmates have achieved greater self-rehabilitation. In 1957 he was a high school dropout of 23, an ex-Marine and jobless drifter. That summer he was charged with killing an acquaintance, a Ramsey, N.J., schoolgirl whose body was found in a deserted sand pit, her skull crushed by a 14-lb. boulder. Though Smith vehemently denied guilt, he was convicted on circumstantial evidence and sentenced to die in the electric chair at Trenton State Penitentiary. Instead of vegetating in his cell, Smith...
Ghislaine D'Orsay, a schoolgirl in Italy making her first acting appearance, is unselfconsciously compelling as the irrational, ranting girl. Margarita Lozano carefully controls her role as the wearily optimistic analyst. She is especially touching at the end, when the girl she has raised from darkness to light-and who in turn has uplifted her-is ready to leave. "It feels like a bereavement inside of me. That, I suppose, is the price of giving birth...
...Arnic had their first hit about the same time as Tom and Jerry recorded "Hey, Schoolgirl," which led to such recent hits as "Sounds of Silence," "I Am a Rock," etc. But Jan and Arnie went straight downhill after their first big record. Anyway, what was the record...
...black schoolgirl in Philip Evergood's painting There'll Be a Change in the Weather stands as straight as Caspar the King. She is wearing sneakers just like the other kids, so white, and a pretty school frock. But she is mocked. The children who should be her friends stick out their tongues. The beauty of the painting hurts. One al most expects the mothering earth to open and receive the girl, to save her from the hell of that schoolyard...