Word: fluff
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...feels that Reagan got as far as he did largely because "he is a good speaker, he comes across well on TV -after all, that was his trade. Reagan is an attractive and appealing man-I like him. Jerry Ford is not fluff; he knows the real meat-and-potatoes part." Betty is critical of Nancy's opposition to the Equal Rights Amendment. "I just think that when Nancy met Ronnie, that was it as far as her own life was concerned. She just fell apart at the seams...
Winner of ten Tony awards as producer and/or director of such Broadway productions as West Side Story, Fiddler on the Roof, Cabaret, Candide, and Company, Hal Prince has practically redefined the modern American musical, swapping its persistent tradition of formulaic fluff and glossy chorus lines for social themes and theatrical vigor. Pacific Overtures, his latest offering, features an all-Asian cast, score by collaborator Steven Sondheim, and a story based on Matthew Perry's invasion on Japan, sailed out of its Boston try-outs last week (after meeting with some rough weather from the critics) for a January 11th docking...
Many gay terms for sexual styles and tastes are putdowns. Besides nellies, effeminate gay males are called twinkies, sissies or queens; they do their drinking in vanilla bars, swish joints or fluff parlors. The all-purpose term queen is used in many combinations: a drag queen wears women's clothes, and a chicken queen (or chicken hawk) prefers sex with underage boys...
Brains or Fluff. No need to panic...
...revelations are brief, more marked by tact and irony than by whine or whimsy. In truth, Mummy, a daughter of the rich and distinguished de Sélincourt family, does not come off very well. When Rabbit says to Owl, "You and I have brains. The others just have fluff," Milne makes clear that "the others" emphatically included his mother. She was dim, she hated games and was good only at gardening, interior decoration and tying parcels-the one "practical thing she was properly taught in her whole life." But she laughed at A. A. Milne's jokes...