Word: colorations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...five companies of troops and a military band fell into line outside a San Salvador funeral home, a casket the color of a polished bayonet was lifted into the hearse. Fifteen minutes later, the somber parade arrived at the Church of Perpetual Help. The pews filled quickly. President José Napoleón Duarte slipped in by a side aisle, while U.S. Ambassador Thomas Pickering took a seat near the back. All had come to honor Lieut. Colonel Domingo Monterrosa Barrios, a man whose title only partly explained his importance. "Domingo was a good man," said the Rev. Manuel Vega...
...Face in the mirror looks the same./ Every morning I keep looking for a change." Color her chameleon, for Barbra Streisand's persona seems constantly to change, if not every morning, at least with the times. And certainly with the trends. The lyrics are from her new album, Emotion, and to promote it she made her first video, which debuted last week (with Kris Kristofferson, 45, as her unbilled costar) on Entertainment Tonight. Since what's new is neo and what's hot is retro, the 6-min. clip for the song Left in the Dark features...
...also a trail blazer. In a new television commercial that went on the air last week in Dallas and Los Angeles, a series of black-and-white scenes depicts changes in women's lifestyles, from fashions to careers, during the past quarter-century. As the screen switches to color, a young professional woman is seen at work. A voice-over notes that for all the progress during those years, choices in female birth control had changed little "until Today." Introduced last year by VLI (third-quarter sales: $2.76 million), Today is the disposable contraceptive sponge now used by more...
...somewhat more egalitarian age, today's self-styled arbiters of elegance do their best to disavow the slightly embarrassing equation of good manners and money. While Emily Post's original guide was full of such now esoteric information as what color livery the footmen should wear, Elizabeth Post insists that she and her grandmother-in-law both regard etiquette as "a code of behavior, based on kindness and consideration." Says Ann Landers: "Good manners are important because they show how you care about another person. Bad manners indicate a lack of caring." Marjabelle Stewart maintains that "manners will...
...Public Broadcasting System (WOBH, Channel 2 in Boston) beginning at 1 p.m. Dick Galtiette, Upton Bell and Sean McDonough will call the contest. Radio station WHRB (93.5 AM) will carry the game live, Bob Gamere will handle WMRE's play-by-play, with former Harvard quarterback Mike Lynch providing color commentary WHRB's him Rosenthal and Ed Stiel will call the game for the student station...