Word: bouffanted
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...predecessors as Governor, she has personally wooed the lawmakers, inviting them to breakfasts and lunches at the Governor's Greek-revival mansion. She talked state representative Pete Laney into releasing a lottery bill from his committee on state affairs by plying him with bagels and doughnuts. Her snow-white bouffant hairdo and folksy charm have become familiar at committee hearings, in which she often testifies. "The legislature is excited because at long last they're being paid attention to," says Richards' press secretary Bill Cryer...
...three decades in the relationship of a New Jersey couple played by Timothy Daly and Eve Gordon. They date in high school during the early '60s (Motown music on the sound track), live together as rebellious college students (psychedelic rock), marry to satisfy their parents and eventually divorce. The bouffant hairdos and nerdy wisecracks lend fun to the flashbacks, but Daly and Gordon face such predictable life crises that one might be reading a textbook on the generic baby boomer. Almost Grown will not reach maturity until it addresses more individual, and compelling, problems...
...Moon Unit Zappa, she is the hostess of a syndicated TV show that features laughably egregious horror and sci-fi movies. She frequently interrupts the movies to offer her own unique variety of peanut-gallery comments. She is also famous for her neckline, which is as low as her bouffant is high...
...cool and proper. Their friends contend that deep down, they are very much alike. Both are efficient, highly organized and quietly but fiercely competitive. She ran unsuccessfully for Congress in 1984 with a combative but haughty campaign. (One columnist, in a wicked play on her name, dubbed her "Elite Bouffant.") She has taken a leave from her real estate business to campaign for her husband, but insists that she will not "merely be a dutiful wife." Within the confines of Delaware's upper class, the two-career du Ponts are rebels...
MUCH of the plot is caught up in replaying the simple overused stereotypes of country singers and evangelists. While Ron Duvernay (also the show's composer) plays Holly R. Thanthou in the classic style, creating an Anita Bryant-Jerry Falwell Frankenstein with a bouffant hairdo and glass of Consecrated Concentrate for everyone...