Word: waif
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like a ravished waif...
This rather sad, silly and sterile proposition is seen through a teary blur of bravery. Thank You might have been subtitled Orphan of the Sexual Storm. Seduced, pregnant and very much alone, Sandy Dennis, an arch-valiant London waif, decides to have her baby anyway. She wouldn't dream of darkening her parents' door, and they have left for Africa anyway. She is too proud to tell the father (Ian McKellen), a BBC TV announcer who was only with her for one gravid night. Apparently she takes a dim view of his husbandly potential in any case, though...
...cast of Oliver! than the star of Sweet Charity, but Shirley MacLaine insisted that "there is more to life than worrying about clothes." In London briefly to promote Charity, Shirley offered a few more upbeat views that roundly belied her traditional image as Hollywood's wispy, well-meaning waif. On politics: "Politics is not relevant to me any more. What matters is social revolution in the West." On pot: "I smoke pot, but I'm not addicted to it. I'm not addicted to anything except being alive. I can get high on a sunset." On marriage...
...gave-serving up her guests in bite-sized morsels. People exist for Gloria to hold up and put down, and she delightedly pounces on a waifish little girl somebody brought, with so much hair, she explains, "it was impossible to see its face without trespassing." The fact that the waif died of drug withdrawal the next day is merely the perfect capper for Gloria's account of the evening...
...Mary and John? The ad announcing the new production says it in ideographs: Rosemary's baby carriage perched atop Mrs. Robinson's knee. Mia Farrow, 23, and Dustin Hoffman, 31. The wandering waif and the victim of the middle class. Mrs. Sinatra and Mr. Acne. Novelist Flannery O'Connor put it another way: "Everything that rises must converge." The casting together of the two fastest-rising performers in the business was inevitable?it always is. But it once took half a career to manage the box-office mergers of Jimmy Stewart and June Allyson or Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn...