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Coloring is also a big part of this spring's hair styles, and that means everything from subtle highlighting to "Cyndi Lauper kind of coloring," as Gino Ruotolo, owner of Gino's' Parruchiere on 20 Holyoke St., jokingly puts it Because hair fades with washing, highlighting is designed to bring out the natural shade of your hair through a process of "lifting" the color to one of 12 successive shades...
...think she's a victim of overexposure," says Freddy DeMann. Freddy manages Madonna, not Cyndi, and frets - is, in fact, "absolutely worried" - that all the p.r. heat might burn out his client. Now, then. While the ladies play tag with the limelight, a few thoughts occur...
...Cyndi Lauper's She's So Unusual, for anyone without access to electric entertainment of any form, has become the first debut album in history to rack up four top-five singles. Name those tunes and, very likely, you can sing a chorus, along with all the Lauper loopies who cover the age spectrum, from dress-alike five-year-olds to grannies gone groovy: All Through the Night; She Bop, which inverted Gene Vincent's classic Be-Bop-a-Lula into a thoroughly unapologetic paean to female autoeroticism; Time After Time; and Girls Just Want to Have Fun, a kind...
...Cyndi Lauper is the manic outsider in every high school class - brassy and sensitive, dippy and shrewd - whose hair seems to have been colored by a box of melted Crayolas and who dresses in the kinds of duds gypsies might wear if they had proms. Part Piaf, part Little Peggy March, she also has a razzle- dazzle, multi-octave range, a voice that can coax a broken promise out of a ballad or pin a rocker right to the mat. She has the whole package. But Madonna has the look...
...independent and honest, that says, 'You don't like me, that's your problem.' " But some people in the music business have that problem. "McDonna," goes the current industry gag: "Over 1 million served." Others, whether they like Madonna or not, find her different from Lauper. "To me, Cyndi is more of an artist than Madonna," says Irving Azoff, president of MCA Records. "Cyndi Lauper will be around for a long time," says Paul Grein, an editor at Billboard. "Madonna will be out of the business in six months. Her image has completely overshadowed her music...