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PORTRAIT
OF
TWO GIRLS
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shoe tips and blushes as he answers, "That Sue Lyon — she — she’s — well, what I mean is — she’s sort of — sexy, don't you think?”
A few minutes after this, you and your boy friend are seated side by side in the Orpheum watching "The Miracle Worker.” The chocolate bar he bought you is sticky in your fingers— you're hypnotized by the scene on the screen. There, a little slip of a girl is battling furiously with a woman. The expression on the girl’s face is amazing — her eyes are glassy yet wild, her mouth is violently distorted so that she looks like an untamed animal; her hair flops and wiggles as if it had a separate, uncontrolled life of its own. You’re a bit ashamed as you say to yourself, ‘Well, at least Patty Duke isn’t sexy, or even pretty."
Your boy friend leans over and whispers, "Hey!
This is better than any fight
You shush him — and keep your attention on the screen. A transformation is taking place. The little blind girl on the screen has thrown a pitcher of water at the woman — her teacher — and now the two of them are out at the pump where the child is refilling the pitcher. As the girl pumps, the woman spells out the word "water” on the child's hand, using deaf and dumb — and blind — language.
And the girl’s face! It’s iike nothing you've ever in your life seen! Where a moment before her hair was like a shook-up mop, it now softens and frames her face; a moment ago her eyes had resembled an animal’s at bay, now they have the expression of a child seeing her first Christmas tree; her mouth was ugly and jagged — now it shapes itself into something almost beautiful as it forces out the sound ' 'wa u-wau ’ ’ — water!
"Beautiful” — that's the word for the little girl’s innocent heart-shaped face as one tear forms in the corner of her eye and then (Continued on page 81)
Patty cooks lunch for friends, while Sue is busy cooking up plans to get her talented brother Chris into the movies.