Word: waif
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...husband on a sacred Saturday evening he had reserved for taking her out to dinner and spends the night at Renata's flat. Philippe, ever logical, goes home to mother and has a liver attack. Shirley, forlorn and illogical, goes to a restaurant and picks up another waif, a girl who has ordered a four-course meal for her cocker spaniel but has no money...
...opened in Greenwich Village, the logical response to the title might have been: So what? The songs were written by an obscure Belgian bourgeois-turned-chanteur; they were being sung in the dark basement of the Village Gate by four nobodies. But one of these nobodies was a phosphorescent waif named Elly Stone, who breathed life and passion into Brel's hard-edged depictions of soul v. circumstance. Nearly 1,000 performances later, Jacques Brel is still vibrantly alive and well in New York. On an initial investment of $52,000, four companies of Brel have grossed more than...
...hardly the all-American childhood, full of Girl Scout meetings and slumber parties. "To other people, being Judy Garland's daughter meant that either I led the glamorous, spoiled life of a movie star's child or that I was a poor little waif, a vagabond gypsy kid." Neither was true. Or both. "I may have been reared strangely compared with other kids, but I had a swell time growing up. Really." Childhood was visiting movie sets where Judy was filming or where Liza's father, Vincente Minnelli, was directing. It was enormous birthday parties, "all with...
...dancers within memory have projected the rangi of whims and wishes or invoked the delicate interplay of emotions that flow from the least gesture of Haydée's body, the slightest tilt of her head. Her Juliet is funny, touching and finally heartbreaking. Her Tatiana melds waif with woman so successfully that the pools of bathos beneath the surface of the Pushkin-cum-Tchaikovsky Eugene Onegin never once spill over. Her Kate is a farouche wallflower on the surface, a child within. Kate's trustful obedience, when it is finally granted to Petruchio...
Though they vary in complexity, all her people face the uncompromising difficulties of love and its opposite-not hate, but apathy-a madding emptiness that invites lust and violence the way deadwood invites fire. Loretta Wendell is in some ways the most fortunate. As a 16-year-old Depression waif, she wakes to discover that her lover, sleeping beside her, has just been shot through the head. Within the hour, a neighborhood policeman, more interested in investigating Loretta than the murder, has her back in bed. Marrying him to rise in the world, she eventually finds her level...