Word: spinsterish
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...Broadway in November, the revival does not overawe her. "I don't think very much about what is dangerous or not," says the former sex symbol. "I can't panic. I don't have the time." To make her task even more unaccustomed, she chose to play the spinsterish New Englander, Hannah, and turned down the saucier part of Maxine, the innkeeper. Does she miss those earlier seductive roles? "Time has passed," she says, seemingly without regret...
...view subscription and cable systems and opened it at 91 moviehouses around the country. It was the first time that a premiering film had also been released on television. The result was akin to the reaction of Frederic, the apprentice pirate in the operetta, upon discovering that his spinsterish nursemaid is not the ideal of female pulchritude: disappointment...
...nuances of the writing; there isn't a broad moment in the entire 5½ hours. The cast could not be better. Richard Briers is particularly dexterous as a foolish, henpecked husband whose chummy manner does not entirely hide a disappointed heart. So is Penelope Wilton as the spinsterish sister who is most touchingly desperate for affection...
OGUNQUIT, ME., Playhouse. A spinsterish dental nurse turns bewitching temptress in Abe Burrows' Cactus Flower...
...really believes that something can be done about it -practically a political heresy in cynical New York City. Chipper and resilient at 45, even if his fair hair has greyed a bit along with his image, Lindsay is often accused of being a cross between Don Quixote and a spinsterish schoolmarm because of his sometimes rigid righteousness and such of his fancies as "the Athenian idealization of public service." Still, for all his high phrases and sometimes frenetic activity, Lindsay has made some significant strides in his effort to reorganize and govern the nation's least governable city...