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...presents of the class which he has so suddenly affected, Gaston asks for romantic counsel as well. Once again, Baron Manners: "Tell her, 'You are the one to whom I belong body and soul,' and remember 'After supper, it is easier to discuss with a woman the dessert...

Author: By Clark J. Freshman, | Title: Quintessential Cole | 10/9/1984 | See Source »

...show progresses--familiar songs all along, cliches and stereotypes rarely surmounted--the "chamber musical" conception offers us something akin to the one-night stands it so shamelessly portrays. Fun, entertainment, mirth: we get all of this, but nothing more. We know our lovers want their dessert, we suspect some fulfillment of those desires, but is that...

Author: By Clark J. Freshman, | Title: Quintessential Cole | 10/9/1984 | See Source »

...rich dessert, but a hair-styling foam, mousse is the headiest new performer in the $3 billion American hair-care market. Since French cosmetics giant L'Oréal introduced Free Hold to U.S. stores only last December, several brands have been rushed into what could be a $100 million first-year market. Some Los Angeles distributors are having trouble meeting the demand. Says Dallas Stylist Paul Neinast: "Everybody from high school kids to women in their 60s and 70s is using it. Tons of men are using...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Mousse Is on the Loose A quick, slick hair groomer is the wave of the future | 9/10/1984 | See Source »

...Thompson never jokes about the decathlon. He is his own coach and does not have a fool for a pupil. He claims that he revels in the rigors of the training; competition is dessert. "I sound rather eccentric, don't I?" he asks rhetorically. "No, when you're rich you're eccentric, when you're poor you're mad. So I'm mad." Thompson grew up poor and angry. He is the son of a Nigerian British immigrant who died when Daley was twelve and a Scottish mother who sent him at age seven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: CALL THIS BRITON GREAT | 8/20/1984 | See Source »

...Queen Mary is berthed in the harbor at Long Beach, a tourist attraction. She has a restaurant astern called Sir Winston's. The menu is in French. Under dessert you find "tuile aux fraises, "with no English translation. You summon a waiter, whose name is Juan. "French taco," Juan explains, "with strawberries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: In Search of the Angels | 7/30/1984 | See Source »

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