Word: flapperisms
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...Glenn Close) and Nick (Mandy Patinkin) are a San Francisco couple whose state of yuppie nirvana is suddenly and supposedly humorously disrupted when Jan's body is taken over by the ghost of a flapper starlet named Maxie Malone...
Because the clubs are such an integral part of many students' social lives. Princeton still echoes with vestiges of the cosmopolitan lifestyle of F Scott Fitzgerald and the flapper generation. But those images emanate from the design of Princeton itself. The sturdy elms which line and shade the streets and the row of terraced clubs down Prospect Avenue realfirm the traditional images of Old Nassau However, students say Fitzgerald's carefree mixture of youth and affluence appears rarely in their experiences as Princeton undergraduates, in part because they simply do not have the time. "We work awfully hard," said senior...
...even when she and Selleck are at their best, their characters trap them; the unflappable flapper and the hard-bitten ex-ace with a heart of gold never grow beyond stereotypes. Eve can that only dance and break hearts, but she can stunt-fly and shoot as well as the war veteran. (Mercifully, no one ever actually says, "Just like a man!," but it's the insinuation that counts.) O'Malley, for his part, can not only drink and seduce woman, but he can stunt-fly and shoot almost as well as Eve. As the mercenary-who's-really...
...long, narrowing gradually from the shoulder to a nip at the hip and featuring a one-button closing. His women's line will concentrate on "cleanness and wit" and will feature oversize coats and jackets in wool flannel that will remind some observers of the wardrobe a flapper would haul along on her way to a little boola-boola...
Good news, though, comes in the form of Kirsten Giroux as Lady Macbeth. With legerity and a crystalline voice, she appears at first like a sweet '20s flapper and turns savage with frightening speed, manipulating her husband with thinly disguised sexuality. But the unmitigated passion which drives her can go just as easily the other way, into fear and insanity, and she crumbles beautifully, back into the flapper and beyond into girlhood. Searing her hand on a candle flame, she tragically reminds us of an inner power that once tried to unsex her but never succeeded...