Word: shopgirl
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nazis and Socialists spilled over into bloody street battles that erupted all over Germany. In the Baltic seaport of Liibeck, the Nazis met a tough opponent in a husky, square-jawed youth named Herbert Karl Frahm, a member of the Socialist youth club. The son of an unmarried shopgirl whose lover had deserted her before the child's birth, Herbert Karl and his mother lived as boarders in the home of a chauffeur whose own wife had little patience with the child. Perhaps to compensate for his unhappy circumstances, the boy excelled at school, winning a scholarship...
...Garden of Earthly Delights, she takes Clara from the filth and mis ery of migrant camps through a period as a shopgirl and finally into avaricious and vindictive middle age. Devoured by love for the men in her life and, in turn, obsessively devouring her weak bastard son, Clara eventually drifts into madness rather than give up her fierce search: "If nobody gives me what I want, I'll steal it. I want somethin'-I'm goin' to get it." Only in the last 50 or 60 pages of the book does the author loosen...
...UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG. A shopgirl submits her first careless rapture to sober second thoughts in French Director Jacques Demy's sadly cynical fable, entirely set to music and done up in candy-box decor...
...writer, mellowed into middle-age, urbane, but weary of loving women who think themselves sophisticated, secludes himself in a country house outside of Dublin with an old woman who cooks him cabbage and bacon. He meets a gawky shopgirl, hungry for romance and poetry...
GIRL WITH GREEN EYES. Rita Tushingham is a young English actress with charm and talent to burn, and in this story of a shopgirl's passion for a middle-aged author (Peter Finch) they give a lovely light...