Word: waif
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...This is just another extreme: the waif lookvs. eating junk food in public," Casey J. Noel '01said...
...grade-Z moviemaker and cross-dresser with a special affection for angora sweaters; Don Juan De Marco, where he plays a schizophrenic who escapes from dismal reality by impersonating, with sinuous delicacy, an enviably proficient Latin lover; and Benny & Joon, in which he's an illiterate and nearly speechless waif with a genius for mime. What is perhaps most striking about these characterizations is their fundamental sobriety, disciplined intensity and hints of Depp's other main line, which consists of making something quite hypnotic out of a passivity enlivened by nothing more than watchful alertness. He used this strand...
Better yet, Prom Queen of the Indies. Her crisp, dark beauty radiates the easy breeding of old-Hollywood royalty. Her wide, playful mouth suggests the young Katharine Hepburn; its I-know-I've-got-it look can be read as poise or derision. Waif-thin, Posey must have a Slinky for a spine; her walk is a loosey-goosey dance, as if house music were playing nonstop in her head. The aura is of a Park Avenue deb who gets her kicks downtown...
...suggests that those women who wear plus-sizes (generally considered size 16 and up) are somehow more qualified to bear the title of "woman" than those who wear skirts in the single digits. What, then, would they call the department for those who wear sizes two through 14--Macy Waif...
...moment, Paltrow is filming the role of the sad waif Estella in Great Expectations, due out next year. But if you think she is doomed to play only transatlantic prisses in genteel screen dramas, think again. "Gwynnie is very American," says Kloves, "but the interesting part of American--dark, dangerous. Her appeal is her mystery and unpredictability. It's what people liked about Steve McQueen." Hmmm. Maybe Paltrow can be the one-stop movie star of the next millennium: Grace Kelly and James Dean, in one glorious package...