Word: fluff
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Private Lives is the highest level of British fluff, written by Noel Coward, directed by John Gielgud, starring Maggie Smith and John Standing. A custardy respite from reading period. At the Shubert Theater through Saturday night only...
This new twist to an old curl looks very little like its predecessor. Instead of tightening into frizzy ringlets, the hair strands fluff out in graceful waves or very floppy curls-what celebrated Coiffeur Vidal Sassoon calls a "marvelous, curly 'Greek boy' look." As another hairdresser puts it: "The difference between the old permanent and a careful unpermanent is the difference between your first dress and a Balenciaga...
Born Yesterday is a late '40s remake of the Pygmalion story. The movie is pretty drab, even for fluff, but Judy Holliday stole the show and saved it with her portrayal of the dumbest of all dumb blondes. The revival at the Loeb has its own virtues: see page two. Born Yesterday is playing Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. Tickets half an hour before the performance, at the door...
...commentaries on the traumas of working on the road, on the sociology of backstage life, the horrible, wrenching, self-divisive experience of being an artiste. At its worst, this heightened sensitivity has produced such apparitions as Billy Joel's "Piano Man;" at its best, self-congratulatory pieces of fluff like Truffaut's "Day for Night" ("A film is like a train in the night," the director tells his leading...
...violently in paroxysms. As if two wills were fighting for it--one impelling it down the mountain trail, to swirl light-fingered down the moguls, and the other pulling back in horror from the touch of the slick ice or hard packed snow or rocks beneath the powdery surface fluff...