Word: walkerism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WORLD OF HENRY ORIENT. TeenAgers Tippy Walker and Merrie Spaeth racket about Manhattan as a pair of metro-gnomes in hilarious pursuit of Peter Sellers, a playboy pianist with a yen for footloose matrons...
...love bikinis," says Tippy Walker, tossing her hair away from her eyes. "I'm going to wear one some day if I get the courage...
Films about teen-agers almost never ring true, but Orient does. To find the girls and begin his extraordinary feat of verisimilitude, Director George Roy Hill reached into the unsuspecting halls of two Eastern girls' schools and plucked forth two genuine specimens. Their names are Tippy Walker and Merrie Spaeth...
Tippy wears a decaying fur coat that all but sweeps the sidewalk behind her, and her hair hangs down so thoroughly over her eyes that she appears to be the youngest daughter of a woolly mammoth. Actually, her father is a man named Gordon Walker, who is an engineer with Allied Chemical Corp. in Manhattan. He lives in Rye, N.Y., and sends Tippy to the Masters School in Dobbs Ferry, where she clings giddily to a B average and writes for the literary magazine, Panache...
Amiable Opposite. Elizabeth Tipton Walker is 17 and light enough to be lifted in one arm. Her speech comes forth in sporadic marvels, and her feet don't quite brush the ground. Adults instinctively want to shield her. Merrie Marcia Spaeth, on the other hand, has hair that is always carefully waved, an unpuzzled look in her eyes, and an air of absolute balance. As on film, she is an amiable opposite to Tippy...