Word: urchin
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...performer, is someone from whom we have come to expect a kind of carefree inconsistency. By now it is part of her appeal. She veers effectively, if not exactly smoothly, through wild changes of mood and attitude, from very human comedy to sharp satire to a sort of urchin wistfulness. Her reactions to her characters are so complex and abrupt that the audience is always kept lagging a little behind and slightly off balance. It is an odd sensation, but pleasant...
...thought his feet could take him farther than his head, he entered a blurry "transcendental" phase culminating in the Irish sojourn. In that "Victorian lagoon," even the fighting seemed unreal. He arrived at Cork terrified by a hail of machine-gun fire, only to be reassured by the urchin carrying his bag: " Tis only the boys from the hills." In Ireland he met his first true writers-Yeats and O'Casey among others-and he dreamed of becoming an "artist" whose art could be determined later...
...best-known French entertainer on either side of the Atlantic. For Americans, Chevalier was synonymous with Gay Paree-joie de vivre; I'amour, toujours I'amour; English with a charming French accent. For the French he conjured up a different image. Maurice personified the "Titi Parisien" (Parisian Urchin). Born in the old working-class quarter of Menilmontant, he was a kind of French cockney, with the innate wit, mocking manner, insouciance and unconcern for tomorrow of the poor Parisian from the faubourgs. He was the antithesis of the bourgeois from the 16th arrondissement, where eventually he went...
WHERE HAS TOMMY FLOWERS GONE? Tommy is a sort of Holden Caulfield at 30, an asphalt urchin who is tart, smart and often touching...
...reluctance to discuss his past, Widerberg's imagination has free rein at the beginning. The New York sequence with its shots of skid row hits harder than anything else in the picture. Still, Widerberg feels compelled to add a romance nipped at the bud and a cute little street urchin who teaches Joe the city's lore. Joe leaves to search for his brother, takes up with a veteran hobo, and heads west. Their journey plays like Huckleberry Finn without the cruelty, and by softening their occasional scrapes with reality, Widerberg weakens the logic of Joe's conversion to radicalism...