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Word: kittenish (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...training camp sequence in which we are asked to believe that a competent, liberated woman of our time would passively accept living quarters in an open dormitory populated entirely by the fighter's all-male staff. Streisand is, if anything, less attractive when she goes all cute and kittenish than when she is being strident and pushy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Low Blow | 7/9/1979 | See Source »

...Books/Crown. $10.95, hardcover; $5.95, paperback. A fetching concatenation of feline portraits done by celebrated painters, illustrators and cartoonists from Watteau, Manet, Renoir and Picasso to Andrew Wyeth, from Tenniel to Thurber, from Chessie in the C & O berth to Krazy Kat beset by Ignatz Mouse. The text is too kittenish, even for ailurophiles, but the pictures are, well, magnificat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: GIFT BOOKS | 12/13/1976 | See Source »

...still be sexy," fretted German-born Actress Elke Sommer, who faces her 34th birthday next week and an upcoming stage role as an older woman in Cactus Flower. Male viewers of Sommer's newest movie, The Net, will probably see little cause for her concern. Cast as a kittenish prostitute on the run from a maniacal killer, Elke displays her talents in one scene through an all-leather outfit she bought in Chicago. "I loved it and wanted to wear it barefoot during the filming in Rome," she recalled. Not so Director Manfred Purzer, who quickly ordered his star...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 3, 1975 | 11/3/1975 | See Source »

...Hollywood-all the makeup and surgery that can camouflage every flaw. She has capitalized on her defects as well as her virtues. Her image is to look scruffy and a little disassembled. Black brings to all her roles a freewheeling combination of raunch and winsomeness. Sometimes she is kittenish. At other times she has an overripe quality that makes her look like the kind of woman who gets her name tattooed on sailors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Boom in Black | 6/9/1975 | See Source »

Married. Nancy Sinatra, 30, kittenish pop singer (These Boots Are Made for Walking); and Hugh Lambert, 40, TV choreographer; both for the second time; in a Roman Catholic ceremony in Cathedral City, Calif. The wedding was held on Papa Frank's birthday, explained Nancy, "since Daddy likes to give things away on his birthday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Dec. 21, 1970 | 12/21/1970 | See Source »

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