Word: waif
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Liza is a tornado of energy, and that has a hypnotic appeal. It sweeps up nearly everyone with its seductive force. When she plays her forte, the waif, her wide dark eyes brim with vulnerability. In moments of stillness, her forlorn, diminutive figure makes a plea for love and assurance that only shattering applause can provide and confirm. And she gets...
...abolishes sentiment. A wide-eyed Little Orphan Annie is precisely what one expects, but a dry-eyed Little Orphan Annie is a contradiction in terms. Perhaps through the innate temperament of its teen-age star, Andrea McArdle, an aridity of mood pervades Annie. There is no suggestion of a waif in this 14-year-old, who keeps any warmth or vulnerability on a very tight leash. And what, after all, is the strong. affectionate bond between Annie and her dog Sandy except that both are waifs and strays...
Linda Ronstadt, this high-wattage waif, would be a rarity if all she had done were to survive for twelve years in the shark-infested deeps of rock. In fact, each of her last four albums has "gone platinum" - sold better than a million copies - and her last two, Hasten Down the Wind and Linda Ronstadt: Greatest Hits, reached sales of a million in a matter of weeks. Before Christmas she finished a wildly cheered six-month tour of the U.S. and Europe, during which audiences of 15,000 were common...
Basketball is the street-wise, spunky, prodigal child of the inner city. After a long absence the wayward waif has finally returned to sweep away some of the disillusionment occasioned by The City's troubles. Certainly, basketball cannot solve any of New York's deep-rooted problems, but it can sound one of the clearest clarions of hope for the future...
...Monroe, following her from screen tests to her last incomplete film, tracing her biography in rare shots with Arthur Miller and Joe DiMaggio. There is also a haunting, overproduced birthday party for John F. Kennedy, where the tardy star is introduced as "the late Marilyn Monroe." Marilyn was the waif Shirley Temple pretended to be-except that her desperation, as L.G.T.T.M. shows, was all too real. That kind of realism is also shown in candid scenes of the "Hollywood Ten"-the first men to be blacklisted for leftist sympathies. A happier, realistic segment shows the early Academy Awards, presided over...