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Word: bouffant (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...musical commonplaces. Superficially, it followed the plot of the Corman picture, but it also obeyed dramatic rules enforced through the millenia: the Ashman/Menken Little Shop was a carefully structured Greek tragedy, replete with chorus, hero, dilemma, tragic flaw, catastrophic misstep and ultimate retribution. Snappy Chiffons-type songs and bouffant hairdos notwithstanding, the resolution of Little Shop was closer to that of Agamemnon than Animal House...

Author: By Jess M. Bravin, | Title: Powered Plant | 1/9/1987 | See Source »

...odds of a double-life and a harrowing operation-room job, while her husbands are both puffy-faced, big-nosed, blustering and apopleptic. Between his son's radical politics and a six-million-franc lawsuit he's filed, Philippe is in a constant, hopeless rage; while Vincent, with a bouffant hairdo that looks like Jerry Lee Lewis gone awry is forever out-of-control over his out-of-control students...

Author: By Elizabeth L. Wurtzel, | Title: A Testimony Against Men | 11/8/1985 | See Source »

...life of Tuna is told. Sears and Williams, who also co-wrote the two-man show with director Ed Howard, conjure up the local color with their hilarious sketches: there's Bertha Bumiller, head of the local Smut-Snatching Society, in her green poly suit and orange bouffant wig; Petie Fiske, the woebegone rep from the Greater Tuna Humane Society and his homeless ducks; the toad-voiced chainsmoking Deedee Snavelly; the Rev. Spikes and his "remember the Alamo!" eulogies...

Author: By Hein Kim, | Title: Greater Hilarity Provides Raucous Relief | 10/18/1985 | See Source »

...Rome to buy the extravagant furs that Karl Lagerfeld turns out for Fendi, he and his assistants practiced a serviceable combination of hard business, constructive gossip and applied technology. Wolfe nixed a deluxe fur that was cut like a pullover sweater because "we have to consider those big bouffant Texas hairdos. You can't expect clients to have to drag their furs over them." A dyed gray beaver jacket, with collar, pockets and cuffs furrowed like a plowed field, is "ideal for Mrs. Bowing." (All names have been changed to protect the unsuspecting.) "She sure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Fall Fashions: Buying the Line | 4/23/1984 | See Source »

French adolescents, who were unborn in her heyday, flock to a Marilyn boutique in Paris' Latin Quarter and mimic the bouffant hairdos and casual dress styles of "La Marieleen." A line of Monroe dolls planned by a New York City manufacturer will include a $6,000, 16-in. porcelain model that is described as a replica of the star, with a fur coat and diamond earrings. It will make its debut next month at the American Toy Fair in New York. Last week, "Remember Marilyn" shops at Bloomingdale's New York-area department stores began offering a line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: The Manufacture of Marilyn | 1/24/1983 | See Source »

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