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...infiltrate the ranks of chauvinist men, women must be like them. The pursuit of beauty, which separated (and still separates) the sexes, now means selling out. Which leads to Confession 2: I like to look pretty. I gleefully wear short skirts and tank tops, the blow-dryer and lash curler are my friends and I spend way too much time on my cuticles. I ve even planned ahead: I religiously apply eye creme and sunscreen so that at 35, I won t look, uh, 35. I guess I m just not ballsy enough to walk around au naturel (read: crusty...
...Ross compensates for any shortcomings in the adaptation with his masterly direction. The audience senses the presence of a single influence guiding the production with confidence. The countless surreal touches, each individual in its humor, share an outrageousness which unifies otherwise disparate scenes. The Monty Pythonesque floweryrobed, curler-toting, cake-gobbling housewife is clearly related in tone to the manic judge, wig askew, smashing his vast gavel against his alpine podium. The same hand is evident in the Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee act of Supervacuo and Ambitioso, the bathtub suicide of Lutecia and the conversational blowjob Vindice gives Rapacioso...
They include a wig curler, a clay tile marred by a cat's footprint, pieces of dishes and pipestems, meat bones and the wreckage of the original College building, which literally fell apart in the late 17th century...
Wielding his familiar giraffe-tail fly whisk, octogenarian Kenyan President Jomo Kenyatta, 85, this week will welcome more than 3,000 delegates from 152 countries to Nairobi's Kenyatta Conference Center-a building that looks like a 350-ft.-tall hair curler. The occasion: the quadrennial meeting of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), a group set up in 1964 primarily to give poor countries a forum in which to air their economic problems. In its three previous gatherings, UNCTAD has produced an elephantine mass of paper but little of substance. UNCTAD IV, which will meet...
JUST ASK Our Lady of the Suburbs. Women now can play the games of men. King proved that. And not only can they do anything that men do, but they can be 'feminine' at the same time. Billy Jean was advertising a hair curler, wasn't she? And didn't Howard Cosell say that with longer hair and no glasses she'd be a looker good enough for the movies? Ladies rejoice, the vindication of women has arrived. The war is over, Billy Jean King finished...