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...declare that Tracy's hairdo is a "hair-don't" and exile her to the special ed class. She and Link Larkin (Michael St. Gerard), her "common-law boyfriend," are ostracized from their keen teen group. Her best friend, Penny Pingleton (Leslie Ann Powers), is denounced as a "checkerboard chick" for dating a black student and is tortured by a loopy psychiatrist. And Amber's mom starts a catty rumor about Tracy: "For all we know, she could be high yellow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Buxom Belles in Baltimore HAIRSPRAY | 2/29/1988 | See Source »

...dressing room, teases out her hair and does her Whoopi Goldberg routine instead -- head rocking brainlessly from side to side, arms flopping in front of her like windshield wipers in the delay mode -- a white woman from Illinois imitating a black woman from New York imitating a surfer chick from California...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Wisconsin: Lip Sync Live, Onstage Tonight | 12/14/1987 | See Source »

...blue-collar town is unfazed by the prospect of a Russian invasion. "People will work with the Soviets as long as we get the same cooperation in return," says Insurance Broker Chick Paris. That is the plan. The new agreement will allow an equal number of American inspectors to live in the Soviet city of Votkinsk, west of the Ural Mountains, where SS-20 missiles have been assembled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Russians Are Coming | 12/7/1987 | See Source »

What keeps the two so fit? Certainly not romance. The doctor has an eye for the well-turned ankle ("Now, Watson, the fair sex is your department") but marries respectably. The lifelong bachelor Holmes has neither chick nor child. "Women are never to be entirely trusted," he believes, "not the best of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Game Is Still Afoot | 8/17/1987 | See Source »

...however reassuring Bragg's politics, there's nevertheless something slightly nettlesome about being preached to. One fortunate side of Bragg is that he anticipates all of the complaints--even the ones about how chick it seems to have become for rock stars (Bono of U2, Jackson Browne, and so on) to go down to see what's really going on down there--and he's ready to deal forthrightly with the complaints...

Author: By Abigail M. Mcganney, | Title: Sizing Up a Genuine Bragg-Art | 8/14/1987 | See Source »

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