Word: waif
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Carnival! The vintage movie Lili, with a touch of Liliom, makes a musical that is often, but not always, worthy of its exclamation mark. Anna Maria Alberghetti is the waif, and Pierre Olaf a superb clown...
Carnival! Lili, with a touch of Liliom, make a musical that is often, but not always, worthy of its exclamation mark. Anna Maria Alberghetti is the waif, and Pierre Olaf is a superb clown...
...Broadway Carnival! The magic world of a Continental circus comes alive in this pleasant and colorful reprise of the movie Lili. Anna Maria Alberghetti sings engagingly as the waif and Jerry Orbach is a deft puppetmaster, but nimble Pierre Olaf tops the show in a jubilant dance...
...opened the mail box and took out the mail. There was a letter from Philadelphia, and a circular from Time, Inc., and an invitation to have someone from the Children's Aid Society as our guest for lunch. We had already had lunch, so we couldn't invite the waif to sit down to a square meal with us, but it started us thinking about our mail, and then about the Budget Message, and then about the mail again. Fortunately, we had the New York Times with us still, so we could look and make sure that it really...
...blue eyes can blink in puppy-dog innocence or wink in complicity with all the world. Perhaps her most typical expression is that of a pixy hooked on happy pills, but she can also look like a small kitten that has just swallowed a very large canary, a waif who has lost her bus ticket home, a country girl trying to act like a vamp despite her wholesome apple cheeks...