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...plot is a suitably original variation of the romantic-situation comedy. The Las Colinas hair salon is abuzz with preparations for the social event of the year--the evening's debutante cotillion. Aspiring deb SuzyBelle Mallard (Erin Delaney) arrives in a state of crisis, her hair dyed blue by a foreign hair dresser. SuzyBelle's rebellious and cynical sister Clair (Silje Normand)--a misplaced British feminist in rural Texas--shows up with their grandmother Barbara (Liz Amberg), who seems to want to have her hair done, despite being in a state of dysfunction somewhere between stroke and delerium tremens. Down...
Born in 1939 as an exclusive eight-team cotillion, the tournament guaranteed each entrant $750 and expenses in 1940, compared with the $1 million assured all four schools in New Orleans. Throughout the '40s, the rival National Invitation Tournament was more prestigious. In 1949 vaunted Kentucky lost in the first round of the N.I.T. but won the N.C.A.A. championship. Eventually, the field was expanded to 16, 22, 25, 32, 40, 48, and, two years...
...clothes, craft and fine art all cozy up? Do they want to stay with the hard, somber shades of the past few seasons or break loose with the Day-Glo flash of fresh fluorescence? Do they want the newly refined chic of Montana, played down and spiffed up like cotillion costumes for postpunk debs? Or the electric, eclectic, aggressively youthful chic of Jean-Paul Gaultier? Or the Olympian chic of Saint Laurent? And-oh, yes. Is Fort Worth really ready for Versace...
...these two were not so smashing, someone might have wondered what a prom was doing in the middle of the Olympics, or whether there would be a cotillion at the Summer Games. Their lovely exhibition upstaged much of the serious skating ahead and showed how joyless that can be. Not the usual word applied to Scott Hamilton, 25, a happy little dynamo who looks as though he fell off a charm bracelet. Yet it fitted even him. He won the gold medal, but with a wistful shrug said he always imagined it would be "more special." A miscalculation, evidently, involving...
...that night at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, 77 new girls were presented to society at the 47th annual Debutante Cotillion and Christmas Ball. Reading of them, the deb of the year must have felt an end-of-the-ball shiver. "If the press and everybody stop paying attention to me, I'll roll with the punches," Cornelia says. "If they stop," she adds with a giggle, "I'll just say, 'Well, I'm boring now.' " - By Kurt Andersen