Word: spinsterly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...feeling I was dreaming up a boy's novel," recalled Art Scholar Henri Defoer, head custodian of the Archiepiscopal Museum in Utrecht. Two years ago, while visiting an elderly spinster in eastern Holland to examine a holy statue, he spotted something of greater interest-a painting that hinted of the early Rembrandt. Defoer spent the next two years in research trying to verify his discovery. This week he jubilantly announced his museum's acquisition of Rembrandt's Doop van de Kamerling (The Baptism of the Moor), the artist's second oldest known work. Painted...
...elderly, frail spinster Jane Marple who remained her favorite detective. Gifted with as many "little grey cells" as Poirot, Miss Marple also possesses an unpretentious village wisdom and homey psychological insight that make her Agatha Christie's alter ego. Although Poirot is gone, Marple survives for at least a while longer An unpublished manuscript in which she too passes on is locked in the Christie vault, along with the ultimate whodunit, Dame Agatha's autobiography By refusing to publish it during her lifetime, Dame Agatha has assured herself one last, suspenseful hurrah...
...passions, platonic but deep, were saved for the older women in her life: her sister Vanessa, who became a painter and married Critic Clive Bell; Madge Vaughan, a writer who was married to one of Virginia's cousins; and above all Violet Dickinson, an aristocratic spinster who was part intimate confidante, part sponsor. With Dickinson especially, Virginia tended to lapse into repellent pet names and quasi-erotic baby talk ("I feel myself curled up snugly in old mother wallaby's pouch. Is mother wallaby soft and tender to her little one?"). But these women also inspired some...
...resting on their packages, not bothering to turn them into movies that would interest us on their own merits. Rooster Cogburn is not as bad as it might have been. It is just not as good as it quite easily could have been. Hepburn is doing her doughty spinster turn, than which there is none finer, and Wayne is doing his crotchety old reprobate number, than which ditto. They meet after an outlaw gang he is pursuing pauses long enough on its way to a gold robbery to murder her father, a missionary to an Indian village. Nothing will...
...invalid spinster Lady Constance Lytton, Judy Parfitt provides the uncanniest sense of the past recaptured...