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...first is a monologue in which a funky voiced blonde bitch called Gloria (Sasha von Scherler), tells about the delicious party she just 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Laughing in the Dark | 3/28/1969 | See Source »

...harpsichord, organ and woodwinds, Berberian wisely resists the temptation to patronize the Beatle music or gimmick it up. There may be comic incongruity in her highfalutin version of Yellow Submarine, and Paul McCartney, surprisingly enough, sings Eleanor Rigby a great deal more movingly than Cathy does. Yet in such waifish songs as Michelle, Here There and Everywhere and Yesterday, her tasteful, straightforward singing warmly underlines John Lennon's lyrics and McCartney's inventive melodies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Singers: Bel Canto & the Beatles | 6/2/1967 | See Source »

...drunk. In Manhattan a group of feminists staged an all-female Lear, and a Polish actor played Shylock as a fat, wisecracking Broadway type. At Stratford, Ont., Tyrone Guthrie mounted a brilliant, modern-dress All's Well That Ends Well in which the almost Ibsenite heroine became a waifish debutante and the play's "Florentine widow" turned into a wonderful old madam catering to occupation troops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE STAGE: To Man From Mankind's Heart | 7/4/1960 | See Source »

...typewriter keys of Truman (The Muses Are Heard) Capote. Her unhousebroken style of life has already barred her from the intellectual drawing room of Harper's Bazaar, whose editors bought the story but did not print it. Holly is really more to be pitied than censored, more waifish than raffish, a bad little good girl, alone and a little afraid in a lot of beds she never made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bad Little Good Girl | 11/3/1958 | See Source »

...McGrew), resident of France for the past 28 years; Mrs. Somerset Maugham, wife of the British author; Baron Maurice ("Momo") de Rothschild, soft, luxury-loving French representative of the famed international banking family; Mrs. Dorothy Round Little, British ten-nist, twice winner of the Wimbledon singles, and son; three waifish guests of J. Pierpont Morgan: George Harry Vivian Smith, 6, Ann Smith, 1, Lord Primrose, 11, son of the Earl of Rosebery; Lady Byng, widow of onetime Field Marshal Sir Julian Hedworth George Byng, World War I hero of Vimy Ridge. Said Lady Byng of the bombing of the British...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 12, 1940 | 8/12/1940 | See Source »

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