Word: bouffant
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These woman, a.k.a. "moon dolls," have pipe-cleaner antennae growing out of their bouffant hairdos. They wear loin cloths and wade in the plastic-bottomed pools surrounded by the fake shrubbery of the surfaceof the "moon." This was her second film and one which Wishman considers her least favorite "because the people are so ugly...
...They're reliable. "Animated characters don't get busted," says Groening, "and they don't get old." Maggie has not aged a day. Homer can't get much fatter or balder. Marge's bouffant will always look like a neatly trimmed blue fir. Bart frets about graduating from fourth grade, but fate and good ratings will keep him there for life. Lisa, the poor stranded sensitive intellectual, will never escape Springfield...
With the mystique that surrounds debutantes, FM was expecting something more. Stories of trysts in the coat room with boys named Something-Something the Third, perhaps, or at least someone with a bouffant hairdo saying, "And as a present, my daddy gave a me a pink Cadillac with my name on the side in gold letters." The reality is much tamer, albeit much nicer...
...much of the tropical world has been imported into Seagaia. Every afternoon at 3 is the Fiesta del Sol, in which performers in big bouffant skirts, styled to look like coral reefs and Neptune's daughters, prance about and sing tunes like Gloria Estefan's The Rhythm Is Gonna Get Ya. As the party builds to a climax, a mist spreads across the sea, and water streams out from the fake cliffsides. "It doesn't look like Japan here," said Mayumi Murano, a 21-year-old worker at a milk company, who came with two friends during a special preview...
North Korea's Kim Jong Il, 51, wears high-heeled shoes and a bouffant hairdo in an attempt to look taller. He is a poor speaker and worries whether he can match his father's commanding power. But even those who laugh loudest at his vanities take one of his indulgences quite seriously: Kim, who has taken over day-to-day dictatorial duties from his 81-year-old father, "Great Leader" Kim Il Sung, appears determined to build a secret arsenal of nuclear weapons. His government had threatened to quit the 150-nation Treaty on the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons...