Word: flashes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...White House. The mood appears to be shared by the President. He is distressed by efforts to portray him as Scrooge and believes the press is taking an unduly negative tone in reporting on his Administration. Though Reagan is usually careful to conceal these feelings, now and then they flash out damagingly, as in his "South Succotash" wisecrack two weeks ago, for which he had the grace to apologize later...
PINKY AND DIANNE. Two women who got their start doing custom designs for rock stars, Pinky (Wolman), 36, and Dianne (Beaudry), 37, have simmered down sufficiently since the '70s to produce clothes for men and women that add a silken worldliness to their original down and dirty flash. "We were tired of trash and wanted a smarter look," says Pinky. "We discovered silk, which we used for sportswear." Their designs are sassy and declarative, their colors showy but controlled. "We make clothes for a more urban lady, a sophisticate who follows the fashion magazines," says Pinky, who was recently...
...spoken to TV Guide of a "kind of editorial slant" in TV reporting of El Salvador that "challenges what we are doing there." In Oklahoma City, Reagan charged that the press and TV are exaggerating the effects of the current recession. "Is it news," he demanded, with a flash of anger, "that some fellow out in South Succotash* has just been laid off, that he should be interviewed nationwide...
Even in last week's peaceful gathering, there were inevitable reminders of the strife that now rages through the tiny, heavily populated country. As party officials raised their arms to wave or flash victory signs, their shirts rode up to reveal the black barrels of pistols-standard equipment in a campaign in which threats of death vie with leaflets and posters as tools of political persuasion...
Popularity is one measure of a performer's achievement, but in this case it is the least compelling. Pryor is not a flash, a freak, even a one-man trend; he is the soaring demon angel of movies, concerts and Grammy-winning albums. As a comedy monologuist, Pryor is without peer. Drawing his material from the black hole of ghetto life and death, Pryor uses his dramatic power to magnetize his listeners into the fire-flash fear of the moment-even as his skewed comic perspective offers distance, safety, reassurance. As a straight actor, he has the uncanny knack...