Word: beauticians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...When beautician Polly Tishun (Michael Kennedy '99) blooms from her stuttering shy-girl cocoon and becomes a sexy, successful presidential candidate, we not only see gender-bending acquire an occupational valence but also a post-feminist re-telling of the American teenager's Bildungsroman, embedded in a politicized pulp paradigm that we have not seen since the 60s (aka Celine Dion). Kennedy is fully aware of all the dimensions of his character but still manages to add symbolic layers even as he sheds tactile ones...
DIED. TAMMY WYNETTE, 55, country music's down-home diva; of a blood clot; in Nashville, Tenn. A beautician turned songstress, she performed often plaintive ballads that imitated her life story: five marriages, bankruptcy, a painkiller addiction and a kidnapping. Her iconic anthem, Stand by Your Man, made feminists wince--Hillary Clinton among them--but Wynette stood by her twangy tunes through more than 50 albums and 20 No. 1 hits. (See EULOGY below...
...maybe they think that punishing her body for film art--by, say, leaping off the top of a runaway truck to land splat! on the hood of Chan's speeding convertible--is all Michelle Yeoh does. She recalls that on one of her first L.A. photo shoots, "The beautician told me, 'You know, for a stuntwoman you have gorgeous nails.' Well, thank you, but I'm an actress who just happens to enjoy doing my own stunts. It'd be nice if people could see me for what...
...Congress doesn't need a facial. It needs a fire hose," said Brownback, 39, after discovering that Congress had its own beautician. The lawyer and former farm broadcaster has taken a scouring approach to politics, both in the House as a freshman and in Kansas, where he scored a primary win over moderate Sheila Frahm, the anointed heiress to Bob Dole's seat. As for November, well, Kansas hasn't had a Democratic Senator since...
...Hong Kong heartthrob Leslie Cheung, both of whom starred in Chen's 1993 hit, Farewell My Concubine. Gong Li picks up a TV remote and pretends it's a telephone ("Wei? Wei?"--"Hello?"), then playfully runs it under a prop man's arm as if she were a beautician with an electric shaver...