Word: airhead
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Ivana's holding summit meetings with Liz Smith, Donald's in conference with Cindy Adams, and celebrity scuttlebutt is absolutely trumps with all the media. Is this harmless airhead fun or a fatal distraction from serious news...
Bancroft, playing a South American aristocrat, sounds more like South Brooklyn and about as aristocratic as a hash-house waitress. Alexander ably sketches differences among the dowager's airhead sister, mean daughter and timid nurse, but, as the last, lapses into a singsong that has become her trademark shorthand for innocence. Adding to the problem, Robert Allan Ackerman's archly formal staging emphasizes ritual over a sense of place. Still, the two women establish an ever shifting power dynamic. In the last fantasy, when they embrace fondly in an imagined courtyard, their warmth and urgency enable the audience to share...
LULU. Justine Bateman (airhead Mallory on TV's Family Ties) shifts gears to play, competently if without much shading or subtlety, the ultimate femme fatale in Frank Wedekind's expressionist classic, deftly adapted by Roger Downey, at California's Berkeley...
Quayle in fact resembles the activist Mondale model of a Vice President far more than the invisible-man version perfected by Bush. The difference is the heart of Quayle's salvation strategy. He staggered through the election branded an overprivileged airhead. As candidates or incumbents, Vice Presidents often attract some derision. For the young golf addict, it was a nearly lethal dose. "I came to the office adding a bit of luster to that ridicule," he muses. Allies advised him to go underground, to avoid risks. But with escalating speculation that Bush would dump him in 1992, Quayle...
Vasconcellos' task force last week joined an elite company, including Ronald Reagan's brain and Frank Sinatra's college degree, targeted for satire in Garry Trudeau's Doonesbury cartoon strip. Boopsie, the strip's airhead actress, is selected as a task-force member mainly because she has out-of-body experiences. Her reaction: "I can't get over how open this state is to new ideas...