Word: waif
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Broadway ANY WEDNESDAY lodges an executive's sweetie in an executive suite as a tax and marriage dodge. As a kept waif, Sandy Dennis chug-a-lugs champagne from the bottle like Coke and cries through her smiles, leaving playgoers choked with laughter. Liquor may be quicker, as Ogden Nash once argued, but Sandy is dandy...
Wednesday's woman is really Wednesday's child. She is a kept waif, chug-a-lugging champagne from the bottle like Coke, sticking out her tongue as if hunting a refractory driblet of ice cream...
...Carruth was) a poet, editor, and a nihilist who thinks that "1 must be really half dead" but is not particularly disturbed by the fact: most of contemporary America, he implies, is in pretty much the same shape. The agent of his undoing is a World War II French waif, Charley Dupont, who "was born in Europe's misery and came to America in his youth, imbued with the irony of hope." Dupont bears a disturbing message: "It's okay to believe," and the grail he seeks is simply citizenship papers...
...ideal human life, wrote Santayana, is an "evolution of a given seed toward its perfect manifestation." Most of Santayana's acquaintances failed to evolve, and this book is a record of their defeats: portraits etched in acid and affection. There was the romantic poet Lionel Johnson, "a spiritual waif who couldn't endure the truth, but demanded a lovelier fiction to revel in, invented, or accepted it, and called it revelation." There was the "brilliant genius" Bertrand Russell, who suffered from "a microscopic intensity that narrowed each of his insights, lost the substance in the visible image...
...doesn't have to work a wiggle for it. It's all part of a $1,000,000 movie contract that she signed with Howard Hughes in 1955. Hughes is out of the movies now, and Jane keeps busy running the Women's Adoption International Fund (WAIF), which has placed 11,000 homeless children since she founded it in 1954. But once in a while she slips back into harness. And she has not lost much of the old (38-24-36) Outlaw oomph. Poured into a gown for a three-week engagement in Las Vegas with...