Word: starlet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...license to being insane or being convicted of a felony. But no matter what the charge, it must follow the same protracted and complicated review process of investigations and hearing before disciplining a physician. Ironically, a doctor guilty of gang rape and one who may have botched a starlet's nosejob receive identical--and lenient--investment...
...gimcracks from the '30s and '40s provides a deep wallow in nostalgia. Among the glories of Woolworthlessness are cutouts of Carmen Miranda with the plaster-banana wall plaques she inspired, a Charlie McCarthy paper doll "with movable mouth," and a lurid World War II poster of a starlet straddling a bomb inscribed TOKYO EXPRESS...
Finding Louise in France, Jack tells her he is off to cover the Russian Revolution and exclaims, with the fervor of a talent scout who has just spotted a bright-eyed starlet, "You ought to be in Petrograd!" Reds is all about star quality, its power and limitations-the way a person like Reed can light up a generation of American social history, the way a shooting star can become a falling star when Reed collides with the true "intractables" of the infant Soviet bureaucracy. To carry the moviegoer through the passionate debates on socialism, organized labor and the right...
...quite a persona. Whether the name is Kluckhorn, Perlmutter, or Ginsberg, the same character resurfaces. He is a semi-suave ectomorph who will chase any nubile starlet, whether it requires a descent into a sea of polyester leisure suits at the Americana Hotel or a lengthy sojourn in a Ukrainian cafeteria in the east twenties. Though craven in the utmost, he dashes off to Djibouti or Jakarta at a moments notice, spewing out words along the way like "henbane," "anchor," "parlous," "jardiniere" as well as an occasional "zounds" or "sweet-patootie". A cultural sponge that oozes erudition and arcana...
...murderous schizophrenic on the soap Search for Tomorrow. A rich daddy's girl in the series Flamingo Road. A testy starlet in the TV movie The Dream Merchants. Actress Morgan Fairchild, 31, has certainly perfected a biting style of bitchcraft. But in the film The Seduction, due to be released late this year, she temporarily gives her bristling image the broom. Morgan plays a TV newscaster who catches the evil eye of a psychotic viewer with more on his mind than pillow talk. The actress certainly seems to cotton to her satin sheet role. "I'm so tired...