Word: waifs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...decided --if truth be told, I decided this long ago--that Winona Ryder lacks the acting range of Ingrid Bergman or Katherine Hepburn, and it upset me that a movie which purported to confront "reality" in some shape or form (even ironically,especially ironically would make a wide-eyed waif its heroine with seemingly no other justification. Then I castigated myself for maybe being jealous of her and the fact that my movie-going companion seemed to think that two hours of watching her was a perfectly fine way of spending a afternoon even if he thought the rest...
...that never stop rubbing the back of your heel, it is always there, doing what nature did not intend, with wires sufficient to hold up a suspension bridge and pads that would protect Jim Kelly. And for what? To be more appealing? A few minutes ago, the Kate Moss waif effect was all the rage, together with its requisite minimizer bra -- a contraption that could raise your voice an octave...
...Anything reminiscent of the waif look...
Enthralled in a competitive struggle for the waif-like ideal, any woman who weighs less is viewed with hateful envy...
...Fellini's early masterpiece and the film that brought him international acclaim, "La Strada" has been out of distribution since 1988. The timeless story of an innocent peasant girl employed and seduced by an itinerant circus strongman. Giulietta Masina is outstanding as Gelsomina the waif, and Anthony Quinn and Richard Basehart's performances equal hers as the two men in her life...