Word: waif
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Haute couture isn't the first thing that one associates with grunge-rock waif Courtney Love, but Next Management has nevertheless signed her up as a model. "She's going to be coming out with a whole new look," says Next. (She has already gone brunet for a movie.) "We see her as someone people will design things for." Chanel barrettes, anyone...
...finally meet young Cosette, a plucky little waif portrayed by Jeaneen Garcia (and Olivia Oguma on alternate nights), and her caretakers the Thernadiers (J.P. Dougherty and Kelly Ebsary), at their roadside inn in Montfermeil. Garcia has a charming--though perhaps overly mature--voice, and the audience feels the abuse she suffers in her foster home. She watches the innkeeper and his wife pamper their own daughter, Eponine (Oguma and Garcia on alternate nights), while she is treated like a servant...
Ryder won't fade soon. Adult roles are imminent; she'll fill the characters as well as the costumes. Once waif thin, she now has a figure so womanly that, after it was on show in a Vogue pictorial, she was accused of having had breast implants. The very notion propels her into a verbal dither. "I'm way too chicken to go under the knife," she says. "The thought of someone touching your breast with something metal is like the most -- it's so -- I mean -- it's horrifying to even think about...
...them next door to her sister-in-law, content to preserve her New England obscurity. Today a would-be Dickinson is more likely to grab a guitar, put together a backup band and hit the road. That was precisely the path taken by Nanci Griffith, a wide-eyed Texas waif who may just be one of America's best poets -- and for sure is one of its best songwriters...
...heat up interest, the label arranged tiny, invitation-only concerts for the record-industry elite and young celebrities like Johnny Depp. MTV has not been overlooked -- Cash has made a video of Delia's Gone in which he stars with model Kate Moss, the barely 20- year-old waif goddess. Cash is even considering playing on the Lollapalooza alternative-music tour. Despite all the hype, Cash has remained remarkably serene and even seems a little oblivious to where the record company is sending him. In New York City he performed at an ultrahip club called Fez; Cash refers...