Word: blonds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Permissiveness" is the standard explanation, meaning that we have become a slack-willed race, slaves to every passing genital urging. Why else would a man take up with a gorgeous blond cocktail waitress, forgetting that, for all practical purposes, he already had one at home? Permissiveness, according to the theory, makes us contemptuous of such "traditional values" as loyalty, self-sacrifice and the old till-death-do-us-part type of marriage...
Scorsese's style is still intelligently abustle: fast dissolves of an opera audience, a quiet riot of gold when the blond countess receives yellow roses from Newland, a slow-motion vignette of working men -- the people whose labor subsidizes the idle class. Throughout, he shows he can be as attentive to the tiniest twinges of the heart as he has been to the gunfire of taxi drivers and goodfellas. Here, instead of shouting, people speak softly and in code. The movie is 135 thrilling minutes waiting for someone to come to the point. And that is the point...
...sleep in, read the papers and stroll around Oyster Pond, where specially outfitted gardeners had cleared away thickets of poison ivy. The McNamara house is spectacularly situated, at the end of a three-mile private road marked by red, white and blue balloons. Inside, there are bookcases and blond-wood furniture. The nearest neighbors are Mrs. Thornton Bradshaw, the widow of the RCA chairman, and Agnes Gund, president of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. A visitor to the house said it has had an air of neglect since McNamara's wife Margaret died in 1981. McNamara...
...report also casts doubt on Voss's attachment to his racial identity. It cites a 1991 Cambridge police traffic citation given to Voss, who is light-skinned, which lists him as Caucasian. The report also notes that Voss's hair is blond and his eyes are green...
...prison library at Bedford Hills, "in the company of women who do not care about Jane Austen," Rosie goes on the lam to find the murderer. Was it Richie's old partner Mitch, so antisocial he orders his pizza by fax? Or Richie's new girlfriend Jessica, the blond M.B.A. with the six-figure salary and no cellulite? (So why wasn't Jessica found with a kitchen knife in her chest?) Was it Rosie's Waspy neighbor who makes brioche from scratch, using the seven-hour classic recipe (no freezing the dough)? Or Richie's sister Carol, "Our Lady...