Word: spinsterish
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Sexually repressed, still beautiful and inflexibly virtuous, Tula (Aurora Bautista) becomes a spinsterish "Aunt Tula" to her dead sister's small son and daughter. As decreed by custom in a stifling provincial town, she takes the bereft children and her handsome brother-in-law Ramiro (Carlos Estrada) under her roof. She rejects another suitor to fulfill what she sees as her duty, but cannot admit that Ramiro attracts her. Secretly she pores, moist-lipped and breathless, over a packet of impulsive love letters he wrote to her sister years earlier, yet is offended when the man himself appears...
...Actors Studio, soaking up the Method, which requires that each character should be built motive by motive from the inside. She became the Studio's virtual salutatorian. She could fidget, whine and hesitate like no other actress before her. Her pauses were unmatched. When she played the spinsterish heroine in Tennessee Williams' Summer and Smoke, she made an off-Broadway hit out of a Broadway flop, but she also kept the audience in their seats till after midnight. Director Jose Quintero, taking a second look, cut 20 minutes out of the running time by merely giving...
This impressive new novel begins as a Midwestern idyl set on a leafy, residential street in Rainbow Center, Ohio. A widow er of 78. Realtor Boyd Mason comes home to the wide-lawned Victorian house he shares with his sister Alma, a spinsterish ex-schoolteacher. Each day is an agreeable carbon of the one before. Boyd grumbles contentedly about Alma's bluntness, stinginess and love of gossip. Alma gets comfortably cross at Boyd's deafness, his lack of interest in scandal, his irritating habit of forgetting to flush the toilet...
...this town, and I've never set foot in one of them-the one on 4th Street." But Actor Pidgeon, with his plaintive middle-aged joke in Staying Young, and Robert Morse, with his just-right teen-age theatrics in I Would Die, and Eileen Herlie, hilariously spinsterish about the facts of life in I Get Embarrassed, are refreshingly personal rather than professional in their way with a song...
French Composer Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764) is represented on France's Pathe label in a farcical work titled Platee (mono). The plot deals with the wooing of Jupiter by a spinsterish water nymph. The quicksilvery score, with its pastoral interludes and lavish descriptive effects, is a delight, and the performance is first rate...