Word: waifish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first is a monologue in which a funky voiced blonde bitch called Gloria (Sasha von Scherler), tells about the delicious party she just gave-serving up her guests in bite-sized morsels. People exist for Gloria to hold up and put down, and she delightedly pounces on a waifish little girl somebody brought, with so much hair, she explains, "it was impossible to see its face without trespassing." The fact that the waif died of drug withdrawal the next day is merely the perfect capper for Gloria's account of the evening...
...harpsichord, organ and woodwinds, Berberian wisely resists the temptation to patronize the Beatle music or gimmick it up. There may be comic incongruity in her highfalutin version of Yellow Submarine, and Paul McCartney, surprisingly enough, sings Eleanor Rigby a great deal more movingly than Cathy does. Yet in such waifish songs as Michelle, Here There and Everywhere and Yesterday, her tasteful, straightforward singing warmly underlines John Lennon's lyrics and McCartney's inventive melodies...
...drunk. In Manhattan a group of feminists staged an all-female Lear, and a Polish actor played Shylock as a fat, wisecracking Broadway type. At Stratford, Ont., Tyrone Guthrie mounted a brilliant, modern-dress All's Well That Ends Well in which the almost Ibsenite heroine became a waifish debutante and the play's "Florentine widow" turned into a wonderful old madam catering to occupation troops...