Word: gaminish
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...slum. He is very pleased with their new high-rise apartment; she is so displeased that she has sent their antique furniture to their first apartment on the Lower East Side, in the neighborhood where they grew up. He is glumly preoccupied with getting and spending, she with gaminish stratagems designed to break through his fagade of indifference. None of these are as amusing as she (or Gardner) thinks they are. A powerful odor of neuroticism - anything but funny - emanates from both parties...
...usual, she appeared from behind the pale green curtains dressed in a simple short black frock ("It is my uniform -I am soldier"), her dark brown hair frumpily frizzled, her gaminish face almost bare of makeup. (Says Piaf: "I don't like my appearance to distract . . .") Then, announcing her own numbers in newly learned English, like a ten-year-old reciting Longfellow, she packed them all off to Paree...
Leggy, almond-eyed Valerie Bettis, 28, discovered as a gaminish youngster that "when I was dancing, I knew who I was." She studied in Manhattan with Hanya Holm, and in 1941 gave a debut recital. Her The Desperate Heart won big notices in 1943. But it was not until Valerie stopped the show in Bea Lillie's Inside U.S.A. last year with her tawny "Tiger Lily" dance that anyone but modern dance devotees was very sure...
Venus of Venice (Constance Talmadge). The coy heroine dives frequently and attractively from the second story balconies of Venetian palaces into stagnant canal water in this trivially amusing comedy. She impersonates a gaminish thief. Antonio Moreno plays the harassed, handsome and wealthy hero who inevitably reforms...
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