Word: girlishness
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...earning $19.3 million a year. The next year Cooper was promoted to vice president. The stock price had gone through the roof, and she and her friends at work would sometimes talk of retiring early, taking care of their parents and starting their own businesses. Cooper harbored a girlish dream of starting a bead shop. She had even ordered a couple hundred thousand beads, which still sit in her garage...
...homework and an early bedtime. The civil-rights views of his father Kent greatly influenced him. Ford is proud of being named after Patrice Lumumba, the Congolese independence hero, though he eventually chose to be known as just Lumumba--because, says his half-sister Cindy Fontenot, "Patrice sounded girlish to him." Says Fontenot, 34, a human-resources professional: "He was always very mature, someone to lean on because he was so strong but very sensitive...
Scholars always warn that we should not look at 19th century images through modern eyes, finding sex where the Victorians saw only creamy innocence. But however you might describe Carroll's famous picture of Alice, 7, costumed as a sultry beggar girl, girlish is not the word. Her liquid posture, that off-the-shoulder dress, the frank suction of her gaze--innocence this luscious could almost have an R rating. From here to the foxy cowgirl outfits of JonBenet Ramsey isn't a stretch. While Prose doubts that Carroll was an active pedophile, she does not deny the erotic longing...
...leading lady got dumped, and Foster, at the last minute, was thrust into the role. Last week the show opened on Broadway, and Foster was basking in the limelight. As the small-town girl who comes to New York City in the 1920s, she's got the full package: girlish gawkiness and Broadway brass, the legs and the lungs. Foster is a big reason the show is just about the cutest thing to hit Broadway since Annie's dimples, with perkily retro songs by Jeanine Tesori and clever staging by director Michael Mayer, who has removed some of the silliness...
...they are soft and girlish and ladylike and misnancyfied and snobbish. I don’t like them. I don’t think they’re manly and the kind to succeed...