Word: fluff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...compressed oxygen belted to a handle that also acts as a trigger to send jets of air through two hollow tubes, each 2 ft. long. Holding the contraption just below his midriff White could, in his weightless state, manipulate it so as to send him, like a bit of fluff in the wind, in any direction he desired...
Keep It Cozy. Take the case of The Fantasticks, a shamelessly romantic bit of fluff with a first-rate score. After losing money the first nine weeks, it managed to set up a love affair with its audience, kept everything cozy and intimate in a 150-seat, off-Broadway house. Fans of the show began going back again and again; one critic comes back every anniversary. So an initial investment of $16,500 has quietly turned into a $262,000 profit, and last week The Fantasticks went larking into its sixth year, just 515 performances behind the alltime off-Broadway...
...nicely sets up a comic conflict in the first third of her story--the battle for bathroom supremacy between a young couple and a wrinkled old lady. But the last part becomes heavy and slow; Miss Jackson can't quite decide what to do with her piece of fluff...
Suddenly cursed with leisure, with her children away at school or looked after by servants, she sits idly thumbing the pages of Vogue. Her husband loses himself in enterprises inimical to home life, and amuses himself with bits of accessible fluff. One day, while shopping at Harrods, the placid wife collapses in a fit of hysterical sobbing. The doctor comes. "A beautiful woman," her husband growls, "but all she wants to do is sit in a corner and give birth." She submits to sterilization at her husband's urging, only to learn that he has got another woman with...
Poodles were In once, but of course their popularity put an end to that. Inmost at present, at least with show folk, is the Yorkshire terrier, a minuscule puff of fierce fluff, first bred by sporting Yorkshiremen about 100 years ago to fight to the death with rats of equal size. These days Yorkies are more likely to be found in the arms of the likes of Audrey Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor, Zsa Zsa Gabor, June Havoc, Billy Wilder, Billy Rose, Sandra Dee and Fannie Hurst. But there are 2,592 Yorkshire terriers registered in the U.S.-a bit many...